Holwel Monument, Calcutta

Raphael Tuck & Sons' "OILETTE", ~ 1910

Wide Wide World Series No. 8091

Holwell Monument. John Zephaniah Holwell was the leader of the little band of Europeans left in peril after the sack of calcutta by the Nawab of Bengal in 1756. After a short resistance, Holwell and his gallant party were forced to surrender and were thrust, 146 of them in a guard-room, 18 by 15 feet ' the -Black Hole of Calcutta.'. Only 23 came out alive, including Holwell, who wrote an account of their awful sufferings.

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