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House at Arrah Fortified against the Dinapore Mutineers - from a sketch by Major V. Eyre, 1857. Creator: Unknown.

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House at Arrah Fortified against the Dinapore Mutineers - from a sketch by Major V. Eyre, 1857. 'A lithograph of the house, from a sketch by Major V. Eyre, has been published at Calcutta, whence our View has been engraved. The lithograph bears the following superscription: "Sketch of the House at Arrah. Fortified by Mr. Boyle, District Engineer, E. I. [East India] Railway, and defended by him and Mr. Wake, Magistrate, with 50 Sikhs and the English residents, for seven days against three mutinous regiments from Dinapore. Siege raised 3rd August, 1857. Print dedicated to the heroic garrison".' After Indian troops in the cantonments at Danapur (in Bihar) mutinied and deserted, Irish civil engineer Richard Vicars Boyle fortified a detached two-storey house and provisioned it to withstand a siege. From "Illustrated London News", 1857.

Crédit

Photo12/Heritage Images/The Print Collector

Notre référence

HRM23A76_448

Model release

NA

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Droits gérés

Format disponible

25,5Mo (1,7Mo) / 32,5cm x 19,7cm / 3838 x 2322 (300dpi)

Mots clés

exterior outdoors building event India Indian country British color defence fortified location century Britain rebellion newspapers press B&W engraved engraving Colour 19th century black & white black and white B W white and black nineteenth century The Print Collector Great Sepoy Rebellion 1857 Hindoostan Illustrated London News Indian Mutiny 1857 TGN wood engraving ILN outside newspaper landscape Bihar state Unknown Boyle Indian Rebellion of 1857 Sepoy Mutiny Indian Rebellion Revolt of 1857 Siege of Arrah 19th-century Arrah Shahabad Vincent Eyre Major Eyre Eyre Vincent Eyre Sir Vincent Sir Vincent Eyre Richard Vicars Boyle Richard Vicars