Title

'The Boats Stuck In The Mud And Were An Easy Mark', 1908, (c1920). Artist: Joseph Ratcliffe Skelton.

Caption

'The Boats Stuck In The Mud And Were An Easy Mark', 1908, (c1920). The Siege of Cawnpore during the Indian rebellion of 1857. The besieged East India Company forces and civilians in Cawnporewere surrendered to rebel forces, in return for a safe passage to Allahabad. However, their evacuation from Cawnpore turned into a massacre. From Our Empire Story, by H. E. Marshall. [Thomas Nelson And Sons, London, c1920]
The Print Collector collection

Date

1908

Credit line

Photo12/Heritage Images/The Print Collector

Reference

HRM19C77_196

Model release

No

License type

Rights managed

Available size

27,1Mb (2,4Mb) / 12,2in x 8,6in / 3664 x 2584 (300dpi)

Keywords

transport transportation Skelton JR Skelton J R Joseph Ratcliffe Skelton Skelton Joseph Ratcliffe Siege of Cawnpore outdoors river people male event man men India Indian boat boats country day escape trade guy British weapon weapons gun guns geography color colour mud death war location century Colonial Britain rebellion rifle concept Uttar Pradesh Ganges river ganges battle twenties escaping evacuation warfare 19th century water transport weaponry 1920s 1900s 20th century massacre nineteenth century siege The Print Collector British Empire Cawnpore colonialism East India Company geographical feature Great Sepoy Rebellion 1857 Hindoostan Indian Mutiny 1857 Kanpur sepoy TGN sepoys Marshall H E Henrietta Elizabeth Henrietta Elizabeth Marshall J R Skelton Thomas Nelson and Sons HE HE Marshall HE Marshall Thomas Nelson and Sons