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 * Document H British News Sources **

During the Rebellion the 900 British soldiers and families were besieged at Kanpur by rebelling forces under the direction of Nana Sahib. After being promised safe passage to Allahabad, the rebel forces killed all the soldiers and their families, including British women and children. This led to a shift of the portrayal of the Sepoy Rebellion in the British media. The //London Times// reported on the rebellion 108 times between August 15, 1857-February 3, 1860. The //Illustrated London News// published that “every British heart, from the highest to the humblest of the land, glows with honest wrath, and demands justice, prompt, and unsparing, on the bloody minded instruments of the rebellion.” In India, the //Delhi Gazzette// published that the “paramount duty of the British government is now retribution-a duty to the dead and living.”[|[1]]



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[|[1]] Streets, H. (2001). The rebellion of 1857: Origins, consequences, and themes. //Teaching// // South Asia: An internet journal of pedagogy //, //1//, 85-104. Retrieved from [|http://QL-VgQtecy4.pdf]. p. 95