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Leonaur Ltd The Cawnpore Man by Mowbray Thompson
A story of siege massacre and survival Mowbray Thompson was an officer stationed at Cawnpore with Wheelers command within the Indian North Eastern province of Oudh during 1857the year of the outbreak of the Great Indian Mutiny. The tiny Cawnpore garrison was soon attackedprincipally by elements of the Native Bengal Armyand withdrew to occupy an entirely unsuitable and ultimately impossible to defend position. After a period of bloody battle costly in the lives of soldiers and civilians alike the situation seemed hopeless. Then an offer of honourable surrender appeared to offer the miracle of salvation. But the nightmare of the defenders of Cawnpore was about to escalate to levels of unimagined horror. A series of atrocities was about to befall them that were so terrible that they would become a rallying cry for Blood Vengeance throughout the British empire. This is story of one mantold in his own wordswho lived through those terrible days.show more