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1. Government House (centre), Calcutta, with the Maidan in the foreground

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2. Sepoys preparing for firing practice

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3. Sir Henry Lawrence

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4. Major-General Sir Archdale Wilson

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5. Mutineers destory a bungalow at Meerut during the outbreak of 10 May 1857

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6. Bahadur Shah II, the last Mogul King of Delhi

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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

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8. Mutinous sowars of the 3rd Light Cavalry attacking Europeans at Delhi on 11 May 1857

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9. Herbert Edwardes

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10. John Nicholson

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11. Mutinous sepoys being blown from guns

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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

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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

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14. General Sir Mowbray Thomson, one of only four men to survive the massacre at Satichaura Ghat

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15. Brigadier-General James Neill

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16. Sir Henry Havelock

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17. The interior of the Bibigarh at Cawnpore after the massacre of 15 July 1857

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18. Kunwar Singh (centre with white beard), the rebel Raja of Jagdispur

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19. The battered Kashmir Gate at Delhi after it was successfully stormed by Wilson’s troops on 14 September 1857

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20. The storming of Delhi

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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

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22. The battered Residency at Lucknow after its recapture by Sir Colin Campbell in March 1858

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23. General Sir Colin Campbell (right)and his chief of staff, Major-General William Mansfield

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24. T.H.Kavanagh VC

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25. The 93rd Highlanders entering the breach in the Sikandarbagh at Lucknow on 16 November 1857

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26. The interor of the Sikandarbagh and the skeletons of the rebels slaughtered by the 93rd Highlanders and the 4th Punjab Infantry

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27. Havelock and Sir James Outram greet their deliverer, Campbell (group standing centre, shaking hands)near the mess house at Lucknow on 17 November 1857

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28. Captain Charles Gough saving the life of his brother, Lieutenant Hugh Gough, at Khurkowdah on 15 August 1857. Captain William Hodson (left) is firing the pistol

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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

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30. Lakshmi Bai, the 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.’

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31. Lord Canning receiving the Maharaja of Kashmir after the mutiny

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32. One of Nana Sahib’s many impostors.The real Nana almost certainly died of fever in the Napal terai in 1859