Cawnpore, a city on the right bank of the Ganges, in the North-Western Provinces of India, 40 m. SW. of Lucknow, and 628 NW. of Calcutta; the scene of one of the most fearful atrocities, perpetrated by Nana Sahib, in the Indian Mutiny in 1857.
Population (circa 1900) given as 188,000.
Definition taken from The Nuttall Encyclopædia, edited by the Reverend James Wood (1907)
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