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Kanpur, India: the barracks defended by Major-General Sir Hugh Massy Wheeler during the Indian Rebellion, in ruins. Photograph by Felice Beato, ca. 1858.

Kānpur, India: the memorial to the massacre of 1857. Photograph attributed to S. Bourne, 186-.

Kanpur, India: the site of Major-General Sir Hugh Massy Wheeler's British military entrenchment during the Indian Rebellion. Photograph by Felice Beato, ca. 1858.

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Kānpur, India: the memorial to the massacre of 1857. Photograph attributed to S. Bourne, 186-.

Kānpur, India: the memorial to the massacre of 1857. Photograph attributed to S. Bourne, 186-.

Kanpur, India: the site of Major-General Sir Hugh Massy Wheeler's British military entrenchment during the Indian Rebellion. Photograph by Felice Beato, ca. 1858.

Kanpur, India: the barracks defended by Major-General Sir Hugh Massy Wheeler during the Indian Rebellion, in ruins. Photograph by Felice Beato, ca. 1858.