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W. Empire pod UK.com. Hello and

me William Del Rumpel.

So what are we talking about today?

We are taking things on from 1857 where we left the last podcast and 857 left this unbelievable scar across the whole of

North India. There were the most disgusting war crimes ever committed probably by the British anywhere in particularly

three main cities, Delhi, Lucknow and Khanpur.

Certainly tens of thousands, probably hundreds of thousands of innocent civilians are

beneted, hung, blown from cannons.

And anyone who thinks that the British Empire was benign should read the letters of this period because even figures like Dickens are writing,

delete Delhi, wipe it out, scratch it from the face of the earth, because what the people

in Britain are being fed was this propaganda that...

Child eating monstrous natives.

Particularly women raping monstrous natives. Particularly women raping monstrous natives.

And there's this idea that the mutineers, when they rose up,

raped every British woman in India and performed unimaginable atrocities.aginal atrocities.

And it's certainly true that there were atrocities

at the beginning of the uprising,

but they were, you know,

...