Massacre Ghat, Cawnpore

Massacre Ghat, Cawnpore

c. 1905
13.70x
8.85cm

On the back of this card, showing one of the most memorable places to colonial residents from the Uprising of 1857, its significance is explained in this handwritten message: "“Dear Lill, This is the place where “During the Mutiny” the Women and Children fled to make their escape but was cut to pieces by the rebels. They where [were] in the entrenchments and would have been saved had it not been for false information from a traitor I have been to the place three times Chas [Charles] The cross is at the doorway of the temple were they was slaughtered.”