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{{Battlemap|war=Havelock's Campaign |link=http://maps.google.co.uk/maps/ms?hl=en&ie=UTF8&msa=0&msid=101241150585833319689.000474ba0108ea43485bd&ll=26.078279,81.603699&spn=3.700013,5.410767&t=p&z=8}}
Part of the [[Indian Mutiny]] in 1857.
== Summary ==
Brigadier General Henry Havelock was appointed to command the force designed to relieve [[Cawnpore]] and then [[Lucknow]]. From [[Allahabad]] he won a series of victories recapturing Cawnpore on 16 July1857. He made three attempts to get to Lucknow. Finally, reinforced by Sir James Outram, he left Cawnpore on 19 September and re-entered Lucknow on 25 September. He was then besieged by a larger force of rebels and died of dysentery shortly after the siege was lifted for the second time on 17 November.
== Biographies ==
