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== Summary ==Brigadier General Henry Havelock was appointed to command '''This article is part of the force designed to relieve [[Cawnpore]] and then [[Lucknow]]. From [[AllahabadIndian Mutiny]] he won a series of victories recapturing Cawnpore on 16 July. 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.'''
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== 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 July 1857. 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/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 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.
[[Category:Havelock's Campaign| Havelock's Campaign]]
[[Category:Indian Mutiny| Havelock's Campaign]]
[[Category:Campaigns with FIBIS Battle Maps|Havelock's Campaign]]
