Talk:Siege of Cawnpore

message: I believe at least one survivor is not mentioned in this article at present.
Victims included Captain William Leonard Halliday who died from gunshot during a desperate attempt to obtain water for his dying wife, and his wife Emma Laetitia (nee Wyndham) Halliday, who died from smallpox about the time of the surrender.  They had a baby daughter.
As I have heard it, a servant girl/nanny had heard that the attackers were preparing for a massacre and urged that the defenders not surrender.  When she was ignored she obtained permission from whoever was caring for the baby (it seems by this time Captain Halliday was dead and mother Emma was in advanced stages of smallpox) to take the baby with her as she fled.  The baby girl grew up & married in northern NSW, Australia.  My late father corresponded with either her or her daughter - I am uncertain which until I can find his papers. In St Andrew's Church, Old Cleeve Somerset there is a large stained glass window dedicated to William Leonard Halliday, Emma Laettia and their two year old daughter also of Edward Vibart, Emily and their four children are also noted as having died in the 'massacre of Cownpore 1857 
Are any writers of this article interested in following up this aspect?
Cedric8 12:13, 29 May 2007 (UTC)
thread_title:  Seige of Cawnpore - Survivors 

message: I've re-written the article (diff). I plan to add more information as I come across more books/journals. utcursch | talk 08:45, 12 July 2007 (UTC)
thread_title: Rewrite

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thread_title:  WikiProject class rating

message: While I'm not going to revert the edit, the difference between "violence" and "retribution", but perhaps it should be discussed. --RichardMills65 (talk) 10:36, 1 April 2012 (UTC)
thread_title:  violence / retribution 

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message: This account was told to the English diarist Francis Kilvert on Wednesday, 22 January, 1873 by a former soldier, John Gough.
(Citations given below.)
"Visited the Goughs. Gough came in. He is a pensioner. He was in the 19th Regiment and directly after landing in England after
the Crimean War volunteered to go to India at the time of the Indian Mutiny. He landed at Calcutta and his regiment marched
through Cawnpoor 48 hours after the Massacre. He said the scene was so horrible, so horrible, shocking and disgusting it could
not be explained or described. Women's breasts had been chopped and sliced off and were still lying about with their other
parts which had been cut out. Women were cut to pieces and mutilated in a vile and shocking manner. The most beastly ingenuity 
had been at work in mutilating the persons and violating and dishonoring the parts of the poor creatures...Numbers of the poor
women had jumped down the great well with their children to avoid the horrors which were being perpetrated on the
bodies of women all over the place. The soldiers were furious, almost ungovernable, as they marched through Cawnpoor and saw
these shameful sights. If they had caught the rebels then no mercy would have been shown to those who showed none. The scene
of shameful horror was indescribable. Gough saw 500 mutineers executed at once, the rank and file shot by musketry, the
ringleaders blown from guns...Those who were blown from guns were tied with their arms fastened tightly to the wheels and their 
chests pressing against the muzzles of the cannon. A small square piece of wood was hung round their necks and came between
the chest of the men and the muzzle of the gun. At the discharge the man was blown all to fragments but his arms remained
tied to the wheels of the gun."
This account appears in Volume 2, pages 310-311 of KILVERT'S DIARY. Editor, William Plomer. Publisher, Jonathan Cape.
Younggoldchip (talk) 18:52, 21 January 2022 (UTC)
thread_title:  British Soldier's Eyewitness Account of Aftermath of Cawnpore Massacre