Massacre at Cawnpore

<P>1857 Cawnpore: With savage mutineers laying relentless siege to its very gates the British garrison at Cawnpore in the north of pre-partitioned India holds on with little more than will. A ragged band of exhausted soldiers defending some 400 frightened women and hungry children in a crumbling outpost they wait behind frail mud walls under a scorching sun for the uncertain arrival of relief troops.</P>