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'''This article is part of the [[Indian Mutiny]]'''
== Summary ynopsis ==
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 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
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|[[Battle of Benares]]
|3 June 1857
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|[[Battle of Allahabad June 1857]]
|12 June 1857
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|[[Battle of Belindah]]
|12 July 1857
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|[[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
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|[[Battle of Busseerutgunge]]
|2-5 August 1857
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|[[Battle of Boorhiya]]
|12 August 1857
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|[[Battle of Bithur]]
|16 August 1857
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|[[First Lucknow Relief]]
| 25 September 1857
|}
== Biographies ==
Entries in the Dictionary of Indian Biography 1906:<br>
