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|commander1=[http://www.archive.org/stream/dictionaryofindi00buckuoft#page/448/mode/1up/search/[Hugh 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]]
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'''This article is part of the [[Events at Cawnpore]] during the [[Indian Mutiny]]'''
== 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. Sir Hugh Wheeler and all the men, except for Captain Thompson with three companions who escaped downriver, were killed as were a considerable number of women and children. The survivors were taken back into Cawnpore. See [[Cawnpore (Bibigarh)]] for subsequent events.
General Wheeler was married to an Indian woman and had a daughter Margaret who was 18 at the time of the massacre. She was thought to also have been killed but a deathbed confession 50 years later revealed the truth.<ref>[http://living.scotsman.com/features/Bounty-from-a-mutiny.2353044.jp Article in The Scotsman 2002]</ref>
[[Image:Cawnpore Massacre Ghat.jpg|500px|Satichaura Ghat postcard]]
== External Links ==
[http://www.britishempire.co.uk/forces/armycampaigns/indiancampaigns/mutiny/mutiny.htm "Indian Mutiny 1857-58"] www.britishempire.co.uk<br>
== Recommended Reading ==
For more information see [http://wiki.fibis.org/index.php/Military_reading_list#Wars_and_battles Fibiwiki review of books listed below]*Saul David, ''Indian Mutiny: 1857'' (London: Viking, 2002), ISBN 0670911372 ; (Penguin, 2002), ISBN 0141005548<br>*Andrew Ward, ''Our Bones are Scattered: the Cawnpore Massacres and the Indian Mutiny of 1857'' (McArthur & Co, 1996), ISBN 0719564107 ==References==<references />
[[Category:Battles|Cawnpore (Satichaura Ghat)]]
[[Category:Oude CampaignEvents at Cawnpore|Cawnpore (Satichaura Ghat)]]
[[Category:Indian Mutiny|Cawnpore (Satichaura Ghat)]]
