"Home Again -- India to Gravesend," a famous painting of survivors returning to England after 1857, by Henry Nelson O'Neil, 1859
Memorial on Ridge, Delhi," a gelatin silver photo, c.1900
Lucknow's memorial to Sir Henry Lawrence and heroes who died in '57" (1903)
After the massacre of British women and children in the "Bibighar" house in the background, the bodies were thrown into this well; a photo by John Murray, 1858
The "Satu Ghat" ghat in Kanpur where the initial massacre of surrendered British troops (who had been promised by the Nana Sahib a chance to leave by boat) took place; from 'Le Tour du Monde', 1874;
Koor Sing, 'The Rebel of Arrah,' and his attendants--from a photograph," from the Illustrated London News, Oct. 1857
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