 Sacred to the perpetual Memory of a great company of Christian people, chiefly Women and Children, who near this spot were cruelly murdered by the followers of the rebel Nana Dhundu Pant, of Bithur, and cast, the dying with the dead, into the well below,...  India, Past and Present - Page 212by C. H. Forbes-Lindsay - 1903Full view - About this book
 | Cassell, ltd - 1862 - 302 pages
...near this spot, were cruelly massacred by the followers of the rebel Nana Dhoondopunt, of Bithoor, and cast, the dying with the dead, into the well below, on the 15th day of July, 1857." The original is built of Chunar sandstone, with a gate of gun-metal, and will... | |
 | George Bradshaw - 1864 - 524 pages
...near this spot were cruelly massacred by the followers of the rebel Nana Dhoondopunt, of Bithoor; and cast, the dying with the dead, into the Well below, on the 15th day of July, 1857." The Sewers m the streets, which are not paved, are open, but marked out by... | |
 | William Freke Williams - 1864 - 886 pages
...near this spot, were cruelly murdered by the followers of the rebel Nana Dhoondopunt, of Bithoor, and cast, the dying with the dead, into the well below, on the 15th of Ju\y, 1857." On the llth of February, this memorial and two inclosures, containing the graves... | |
 | Edward Dorr Griffin Prime - 1872 - 482 pages
...NEAR THIS SPOT, WERE CRUELLY MASSACRED BY THE FOLLOWERS OF THE REBEL NANA DHOONDOPUNT OF BITHOOR, AND CAST, THE DYING WITH THE DEAD, INTO THE WELL BELOW, ON THE 15TH DAY OF JULY, 1857." While General Wheeler and his command, with his precious charge, were still... | |
 | William Taylor - 1875 - 454 pages
...this spot were cruelly massacred by the followers of the rebel Nana Dhaoodopunt of Bithoor ; and they cast the dying with the dead into the well below, on the 15th day of July 1857." [" I stand over this tomb of near two hundred bodies of the slain, and note... | |
 | Benjamin Robbins Curtis - 1876 - 408 pages
...this spot were cruelly massacred by the followers of the rebel Xana Dhoondoo Punth of Bithoor ; and cast, the dying with the dead, into the well below, on the 15th day of July, 1857." We leave Cawnpore at half past two on the East Indian Railway. December 31.... | |
 | Frank Vincent - 1876 - 326 pages
...and children, who near this spot were cruelly massacred by the rebel Nana Dhoondpoot of Bithoor, and cast, the dying with the dead, into the well below, on the fifteenth day of February, 1857." Over the door, on the inner side, one may read the following: "Erected... | |
 | Harriet Georgiana Maria Murray Aynsley - 1879 - 392 pages
...cruelly massacred by the folITS TRAGIC MEMORIES. 315 lowers of the rebel Nana Dhoodopunt of Bithoor, and cast — the dying with the dead — into the well below, on the 15th day of July 1857." The whole is surrounded by a high railing, within which no native is allowed... | |
 | W. J. Shepherd - 1879 - 306 pages
...near this spot were cruelly massacred by the followers of the Rebel Nana Dhoondopunt, of Bithoor, and cast, the dying with the dead, into the Well below on the 15th day of July, MDCCCLVII." A beautiful " Memorial Church" now stands on the site of the beleaguered... | |
 | A. H. Wylie - 1879 - 246 pages
...near this spot were cruelly murdered by the followers of the rebel Nana Dhoondoo Punth of Bithoor, and cast, the dying with the dead, into the well below, on the 15th day of July, 1 857." Over the door which admits you within the screen is written, " These are... | |
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