Cawnpore

/ ˌkɔːnˈpɔː, ˌkɔːnˈpʊə /

noun

1. the former name of Kanpur

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.

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Havelock had taken Cawnpore, though he came too late to save the English from massacre, and was straining every nerve to collect a force sufficient to relieve Lucknow.

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Nana Sahib was mustering a force and threatened Cawnpore.

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As they drew near the city over the Cawnpore road, they found that it was mined to blow them up.

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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.

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