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Battle of Cawnpore (Kanpur), Indian Rebellion, 6th December 1857, (1893). The British under General Sir Colin Campbell defeated the Indian rebels commanded by Tantya Tope. The battle was a decisive moment in turning the tide against the rebels. An engraving from James Taylor's The Age We Live In: A History of the Nineteenth Century, From the Peace of 1815 to the Present Time, William Mackenzie, (London, 1893).