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| [[Category:Battles|Vellore, Capture of]] | | [[Category:Battles|Vellore, Capture of]] |
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| |partof=[http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Vellore_Mutiny Vellore Mutiny]
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| |date=10 July 1806
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| |location=[http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Vellore Vellore, Tamil Nadu]
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| |presidency=[[Madras]]
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| |co-ordinates=[http://maps.google.co.uk/maps?ll=12.91177,79.136627&z=13&t=h&hl=en 12.91177°N 79.136627°E]
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| |result=Mutiny suppressed
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| |territory=
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| |combatant1=[[East India Company]]
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| |combatant2=Rebel Sepoys
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| |commander1=[http://www.oxforddnb.com/index/101010738/ Gen Robert Gillespie]<br>[http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Lord_William_Bentinck Lord William Bentinck]
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| |commander2=
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| |strength1=European garrison:<br>Four coys HM [[69th Regiment of Foot]]<br>Relief force: HM [[19th Light Dragoons]]
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| |casualties1=Massacred:<br>Col Fancourt & 14 officers<br>99 NCOs and privates<br>15 others died of wounds
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| |casualties2=350 rebels killed<br>350 rebels wounded<br>600 imprisoned<br>500 fugitives
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| == External Links ==
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| [http://books.google.co.uk/books?id=9LQIAAAAQAAJ&pg=PA430&dq=Vellore+1806&as_brr=1&ei=pJaYSMCAEZXAigH19uHQBw#PPA436,M1 Google Books - Mutiny at Vellore]<br>[http://www.napoleon-series.org/images/military/maps/miscellaneous/vellore.jpg Napoleon Series Vellore Fort map]<br>[http://www.oxforddnb.com/index/101002161/ Oxford Dictionary of National Biography - Lord William Bentinck]
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