Cawnpore

British  

/ ˌkɔːnˈpɔː, ˌkɔːnˈpʊə /

noun

1. the former name of Kanpur

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Example Sentences

“The Golden Oriole,” a 1987 work that was equal parts memoir, genealogy and historical chronicle, traced the author’s ancestors across 150 years of British rule in India, from the 10 relatives among the hundreds of Britons massacred at Cawnpore in the Indian Mutiny of 1857 to his own parents, a British Army officer and his wife, stationed in the early 20th century in the Andaman Islands in the Bay of Bengal, where Mr. Trevelyan was born and lived for his first eight years.

From New York Times

On the banks of the Ganges stands a dull old city, of which Bayard Taylor once wrote: "Cawnpore is a pleasant spot, though it contains nothing whatever to interest the traveller."

From Project Gutenberg

He had lived in Cawnpore before the Mutiny, and knew Nana Sahib well, 217 indeed had been his physician, and gave me much information about the bloody Mahratta chief.

From Project Gutenberg

Nana Sahib was mustering a force and threatened Cawnpore.

From Project Gutenberg

The big, rough-bearded soldiers were seizing the little children out of our arms, kissing them, with tears rolling down their cheeks, and thanking God they had come in time to save them from the fate of those at Cawnpore.

From Project Gutenberg