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

At Cawnpore there was no fort.

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

Though his profession was that of saving lives, and not of destroying them, after the Mutiny he was appointed a Commissioner in the district of Cawnpore, where he had lived, to try insurgents, with the power of life and death, and with no appeal from his sentence!

From Project Gutenberg