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cawnpore
/ˈkɔnpoɹ/
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What does cawnpore mean?
proper noun
- Former name of Kanpur: a city in Uttar Pradesh, India.
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And at last, after this extraordinary march, it arrived before the walls of Cawnpore, met the Nana's massed strength, delivered a crushing defeat, and entered.
Little Toomai remembered the Cawnpore elephant-lines and said nothing.
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Arrangements having been made for the supply of seed, which generally comes from about the neighbourhood of Cawnpore, as February draws near we make preparations for beginning our sowings.
The march of Neill on Cawnpore, of Havelock on Lucknow—officers and men alike urged on by the hope of rescuing the women and the children—are events which the whole history of chivalry cannot equal.