1. Government House (centre), Calcutta, with the Maidan in the foreground
2. Sepoys preparing for firing practice
3. Sir Henry Lawrence
4. Major-General Sir Archdale Wilson
5. Mutineers destroy a bungalow at Meerut during the outbreak of 10 May 1857
6. Bahadur Shah II, the last Mogul King of Delhi
7. The Lahore Gate of the Red Fort at Delhi, containing the apartments of Captain Douglas, the commander of the King’s Guard. Douglas, the Revd Jennings, his daughter and her friend were murdered there on 11 May 1857
8. Mutinous sowars of the 3rd Light Cavalry attacking Europeans at Delhi on 11 May 1857
9. Herbert Edwardes
10. John Nicholson
11. Mutinous sepoys being blown from guns
12. The larger of the two barracks in Wheeler’s entrenchment. A former dragoon hospital, measuring 60 by 350 feet, its thatched roof was set on fire by an incendiary shell on 12 June 1857
13. Satichaura Ghat, Cawnpore, from the Oudh bank of the Ganges. In the centre is the small boatman’s temple from where the rebel leaders directed the massacre of 27 June 1857
14. General Sir Mowbray Thomson, one of only four men to survive the massacre at Satichaura Ghat
15. Brigadier-General James Neill
16. Sir Henry Havelock
17. The interior of the Bibigarh at Cawnpore after the massacre of 15 July 1857
18. Kunwar Singh (centre with white beard), the rebel Raja of Jagdispur
19. The battered Kashmir Gate at Delhi after it was successfully stormed by Wilson’s troops on 14 September 1857
20. The storming of Delhi
21. The Baillie Guard Gate of the Residency compound at Lucknow. Havelock, Outram and the relieving army entered through the opening on the extreme right
22. The battered Residency at Lucknow after its recapture by Sir Colin Campbell in March 1858
23. General Sir Colin Campbell and his chief of staff, Major-General William Mansfield
24. T. H. Kavanagh VC
25. The 93rd Highlanders entering the breach in the Sikandarbagh at Lucknow on 16 November 1857
26. The interior of the Sikandarbagh and the skeletons of the rebels slaughtered by the 93rd Highlanders and the 4th Punjab Infantry
27. Havelock and Sir James Outram greet their deliverer, Campbell, near the mess house at Lucknow on 17 November 1857
28. Captain Charles Gough saving the life of his brother, Lieutenant Hugh Gough, at Khurkowdah on 15 August 1857. Both won VCs during the mutiny
29. British and Indian officers of Hodson’s Horse, photographed shortly after Hodson’s death at Lucknow on 11 March 1858. Lieutenant Clifford Mecham is standing. Assistant Surgeon Thomas Anderson, who comforted Hodson in his last hours, is sitting
30. Lakshmi Bai, Rani of Jhansi. ‘The Ranee was remarkable for her beauty, cleverness and perseverance,’ wrote her opponent General Rose. ‘These qualities, combined with her rank, rendered her the most dangerous of all the rebel leaders’
31. Lord Canning receiving the Maharaja of Kashmir after the mutiny
32. One of Nana Sahib’s many impostors. The real Nana almost certainly died of fever in the Nepal terai in 1859
Picture credits:
By kind permission of the British Library: 1, 5, 6, 7, 11, 12, 13, 14, 16, 17, 18, 19, 21, 22, 24, 26, 30, 31, 32; National Army Museum: 2, 25, 27, 28, 29; By courtesy of the National Portrait Gallery, London: 3, 9, 10; Hulton Archive – Getty Images: 4, 8, 15, 20, 23.