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Description British soldiers looting Qaisar Bagh, Lucknow, after its recapture (steel engraving, late 1850's). The steel engraving depicts the Time correspondent looking on at the sacking of the Kaiser Bagh, after the capture of Lucknow on March 15, 1858. "Is this string of little white stones (pearls) worth anything, Gentlemen?" asks the plunderer.
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  • A steel engraving from the late 1850s. Found at columbia.edu
  • Ball, Charles: The history of the Indian mutiny : giving a detailed account of the Sepoy insurrection in India ; and a concise history of the great military events which have tended to consolidate British Empire in Hindostan ; illustrated with battle scenes, views of places, portraits, and maps, beautifully engraved on steel. Volume 2, London Printing and Publ. Co., 1858, [1]
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