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How to use Cawnpore in a sentence

Looking for sentences and phrases with the word Cawnpore? Here are some examples.

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If our door were in the hands of the Sepoys the place must fall, and the women and children be treated as they were in Cawnpore.
The Ganges Canal reached 350 miles from Hardwar to Cawnpore, and supplied thousands of miles of distribution canals.
The besieged endured three weeks of the Siege of Cawnpore with little water or food, suffering continuous casualties to men, women and children.
Or perhaps it was to ensure that no information was leaked after the fall of Cawnpore.
Cawnpore became a war cry for the British and their allies for the rest of the conflict.
The Bengal Army units in the area, having rebelled, marched to take part in the battles for Delhi and Cawnpore.
One boat with over a dozen wounded men initially escaped, but later grounded, was caught by mutineers and pushed back down the river towards the carnage at Cawnpore.
With Company forces approaching Cawnpore and some believing that they would not advance if there were no hostages to save, their murders were ordered.
When the British retook Cawnpore, the soldiers took their sepoy prisoners to the Bibighar and forced them to lick the bloodstains from the walls and floor.
Examples from Classical Literature
Cawnpore had been in the possession of the English for more than fifty years.
From Allahabad, we proceeded to Cawnpore, where we arrived on the fifteenth of October.
The darkest page of the book of Mutiny is that which contains the story of Cawnpore.
Our brothers at Cawnpore may have secured Allahabad and other towns in the doab long ere to-day.
We left Allahabad at noon, and travelled through the rich valley of the doab, 100 miles, to Cawnpore.
Cawnpore was one of the most pleasant stations of the Indian army.
Little Toomai remembered the Cawnpore elephant-lines and said nothing.
The survivors then withdrew to Dilkusha before being evacuated to Cawnpore.
When we reached the Mint we heard the rumour that Cawnpore had fallen.
Defence of Cawnpore Sir Hugh prepared for the defence of the barracks.
They were all huddled together on Massacre of Cawnpore board the boats.
In the meantime, the crowning atrocity was committed at Cawnpore.
There was a march of 120 miles between Allahabad and Cawnpore.
At Cawnpore, the Mutineers hacked into pieces hundreds of women and children they had shut up in an airless shack.
Sir Alexander MacRobert of Cawnpore and Cromar and his second wife Lady Rachel had no heirs to carry on their life's work and inherit their wealth.
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