About the Book: Indias Historic Battles: A Series (Book 1) Kanpur, 1857
Of all the horrors that blackened the uprising of 1857, none could match the
atrocities committed at Kanpur. In Kanpur, 1857-part of a new series of books on
Indias historic battles-historian Andrew Ward gives an unblinking account of the
siege of the entrenchment into which the European community fled when the towns
four native regiments rebelled, the massacre at Sati Chaura ghat, and the
hacking to death of the surviving Europeans.
Their slaughter would exacerbate the savage and indiscriminate killings the
British were already carrying out, burning villages and condemning thousands