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[http://www.oxforddnb.com/index/101029186/ Maj Gen Sir Hugh Wheeler] ODNB
W H Russell, ''My Indian Mutiny Diary'' (Periodicals Service Co, 1967), ISBN 0527781207<br>
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== 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 and , except for Captain Thompson who escaped downriver with three companions, were killed as were a considerable number of women and children . The survivors were killedtaken back into Cawnpore. See [[Cawnpore (Bibigarh)]] for subsequent events.
== 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"#Satichaura_Ghat_massacre Satichaura Ghat Massacre] 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>
==== Historical books on-line ====
''The Story of Cawnpore'' by Capt Mowbray Thompson 1859 [http://books.google.co.uk/books?id=2hzQJmZ-UYcC&pg=PA160&dq=The+Story+of+Cawnpore+It+was+a+truly+strange+spectacle&hl=en&ei=v9UcTK2tF-qG4gbQocmtDg&sa=X&oi=book_result&ct=result&resnum=1&ved=0CCcQ6AEwAA#v=onepage&q&f=false Capt Thompson's account] archive.org<br>
'' 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>
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)]]
