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See {{Battles_Infobox|partof=[[:Category:Indian Mutiny|Indian Mutiny]]|date=27 June 1857 |location=[[Cawnpore]] Uttar Pradesh|presidency=[[Bengal]] |co-ordinates=[http://maps.google.co.uk/maps?ll=26.470875,80.371898&z=14&t=h&hl=en 26.470876°N 80.371896°E] |result=Massacre of Europeans|territory=|combatant1=[[East India Company]] |combatant2=Rebel Sepoys|commander1=[http://www.archive.org/stream/dictionaryofindi00buckuoft#page/448/mode/1up/search/Wheeler Maj Gen Sir Hugh Wheeler]|commander2=[http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Nana_Sahib Nana Sahib (Dhondu Pant)]<br>[http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Tatya_Tope Tatya Tope]|strength1= |strength2= |casualties1= |casualties2= }} == Synopsis ==The survivors of the [[Siege of Cawnpore]] were offered safe conduct to [[Allahabad]] and on 27 June they were conducted to boats waiting at Satichaura Ghat on the Ganges. As they embarked they were attacked and all the men and a considerable number of women and children were killed. == External Links ==[http://www.britishempire.co.uk/forces/armycampaigns/indiancampaigns/mutiny/mutiny.htm "Indian Mutiny 1857-58"] www.britishempire.co.uk<br>[http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Siege_of_Cawnpore "Siege of Cawnpore"] Wikipedia<br>[http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Kanpur Kanpur, Uttar Pradesh] Wikipedia<br>[http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Kanpur_Memorial_Church Kanpur Memorial Church] Wikipedia<br>[http://www.oxforddnb.com/index/101029186/ Maj Gen Sir Hugh Wheeler] ODNB ==== Historical books on-line ===='' List of inscriptions on Christian tombs and tablets of historical interest in the United Provinces of Agra and Oudh'' by E A H Blunt ICS 1911 [http://www.archive.org/stream/listofinscriptio00blunuoft#page/106/mode/2up Description of the uprising and names on monuments of European victims] archive.org == Recommended Reading ==Saul David, ''Indian Mutiny: 1857'' (London: Viking, 2002), ISBN 0670911372 ; (Penguin, 2002), ISBN 0141005548<br>W H Russell, ''My Indian Mutiny Diary'' (Periodicals Service Co, 1967), ISBN 0527781207<br>Andrew Ward, ''Our Bones are Scattered: the Cawnpore Massacres and the Indian Mutiny of 1857'' (McArthur & Co, 1996), ISBN 0719564107[[Category:Battles|Cawnpore (Satichaura Ghat)]][[Category:Oude Campaign|Cawnpore (Satichaura Ghat)]][[Category:Indian Mutiny|Cawnpore (Satichaura Ghat)]]
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