'Nicholson Leading the Attack Through Delhi Streets', 1857, (1901). Creator: George Francklin Atkinson.

'Nicholson Leading the Attack Through Delhi Streets', 1857, (1901).  Creator: George Francklin Atkinson.

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'Nicholson Leading the Attack Through Delhi Streets', 1857, (1901). Delhi was besieged and captured by the British in 1857 during the Indian Mutiny. The capture of the city from the mutineers was vital to the British due to its symbolic importance as the seat of India's Mughal rulers. British soldier John Nicholson played a noted part in the suppression of the Mutiny, devising particularly cruel punishments for the supposed mutineers. He died aged 35 as a result of wounds received in the taking of Delhi. From "The Life and Deeds of Earl Roberts, Vol. I. - To The End of the Indian Mutiny", by J. Maclaren Cobban. [T. C. & E. C. Jack, Edinburgh, 1901]


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Creator
  1. George Francklin Atkinson, attributed to: British: Soldier, artist
Subject
  1. John Nicholson: Irish, British: Soldier
People Related
  1. TC and EC Jack: British: Publisher, publishers, publishing company
  2. J Maclaren Cobban: : Author, writer, historian
  3. Lord Frederick Sleigh Roberts: British: Commander in Chief of the British Army

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World Asia India Delhi Delhi

  1. 28 39 14 N , 077 13 44 E

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Pixel Dimensions (W x H) : 5616x3720
File Size : 61,206kb


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  1. 0580064901
  1. 2-710-938
  1. 2710938

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