Photograph of a sketch by Major MacBean of the Cawnpoor Battery, Lucknow. The walls of the battery have significant damage and there is debris and equipment scattered on the ground. There is a man under a shelter to the left and two men carrying guns in the foreground. There is a handwritten caption in the lower left corner.

The accompanying text for this image, at the front of the book, records that this battery was so named as it defended the Cawnpoor road. During the Siege of Lucknow it was one of the most badly damaged sections of the defended garrison around the Residency