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'''This article is part of the [[Indian Mutiny]]''' == Summary Synopsis ==[[Henry Havelock|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 [[James Outram|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. ==Related articles ==For further details of events during this period see the following articles{||[[Battle of Benares]]|3 June 1857|-|[[Battle of Allahabad June 1857]]|12 June 1857|-|[[Battle of Belindah]]|12 July 1857|-|[[Battle of Fatepuhr]]|12 July 1857|-|[[Battle of Aong]]|15 July 1857|-|[[Battle of Pandoo Nuddee]]|12 July 1857|-|[[Battle of Aherwa]]|16 July 1857|-|[[Recapture of Cawnpore July 1857|Recapture of Cawnpore]]|16 July 1857|-|[[Battle of Unnao]]|29 July 1857|-|[[Battle of Busseerutgunge]]|2-5 August 1857|-|[[Battle of Boorhiya]]|12 August 1857|-|[[Battle of Bithur]]|16 August 1857|-|[[First Lucknow Relief]]| 25 September 1857|}== Biographies ==Entries in the Dictionary of Indian Biography 1906:<br>[http://www.archive.org/stream/dictionaryofindi00buckuoft#page/195/mode/1up Henry Havelock (1795-1857)]<br>[http://www.archive.org/stream/dictionaryofindi00buckuoft#page/311/mode/1up Nana Sahib (1819-59)]<br>[http://www.archive.org/stream/dictionaryofindi00buckuoft#page/314/mode/1up James Neill (1810-1857)]<br>[http://www.archive.org/stream/dictionaryofindi00buckuoft#page/324/mode/1up James Outram (1803-1863)]<br>[http://www.archive.org/stream/dictionaryofindi00buckuoft#page/414/mode/1up Tantya Tope (1820-59)]<br>[http://www.archive.org/stream/dictionaryofindi00buckuoft#page/457/mode/1up Charles Winham (1810-1870)]<br> == External links ====== Historical books online ====*[http://books.google.co.uk/books?id=iH5CAAAAIAAJ&printsec=frontcover&dq=Memoirs+of+Major-General+Sir+Henry+Havelock&as_brr=3#v=onepage&q=&f=false ''Memoirs of Sir Henry Havelock KCB''] by John Clark Marshman (1867) Google Books*[https://archive.org/details/b28709019 ''My Journal or What I did and saw between the 9th of June and 25th November, 1857, with an Account of General Havelock's March from Allahabad to Lucknow''] by A Volunteer. 1858 Archive.org. The author was W. O. Swanston [William Oliver] 7th Madras NI. The story of the Volunteer Cavalry, commanded by Captain Barrow, also known as [[Barrow's Volunteers‎]].*[https://archive.org/details/withhavelockfrom00groorich/page/n8 ''With Havelock from Allahabad to Lucknow, 1857''] by William Tate Groom 1894 Archive.org. Letters to his wife, by an officer with the [[1st Madras (European) Fusiliers]], who was mortally wounded in a sortie on 5th October 1857. 
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