Cawnpore-The Station, The Outbreak, The Siege, The Treachery, The Massacre - HB

About the definitive book gives a vivid and emotional account of one of main locations of the Revolt of 1857. In writing this book, the author has consulted even the most trivial account in recreating the sequence of events that caused the greatest outrage among the British during, and for many long years, after the mutiny. Native sources of the events are also referred to, to get an accurate description of events, The book is divided into 5 the station; the outbreak; the siege; the treachery; and, the massacre, There is a map, and 2 coloured illustrations in the book, which is a reprint of the 1865 edition About the George Otto Trevelyan, 2nd Baronet, OM, PC, FBA was a British statesman and author. In a ministerial career stretching almost 30 years, he was most notably twice Secretary for Scotland under William Ewart Gladstone and the Earl of Rosebery. He broke with Gladstone over the 1886 Irish Home Rule Bill, but after modifications were made to the bill he re-joined the Liberal Party shortly afterwards. Also a writer and historian, Trevelyan published The Life and Letters of Lord Macaulay, his maternal uncle, in 1876.Trevelyan went out as a civil servant to India, where he spent several years. He was elected Liberal Member of Parliament (MP) for Tynemouth and North Shields in 1865. During his stay in India, he contributed "Letters of a Competition Wallah" to Macmillan's Magazine (republished 1864). Cawnpore, an account of the massacre there during the Indian Rebellion of 1857, was published in 1865. In 1867 he wrote The Ladies in Parliament, a humorous political brochure in verse.