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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 and , except for Captain Thompson with three companions who escaped downriver, were killed as were a considerable number of women and children . The survivors were killedtaken 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>
[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 ==
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>W H Russell, ''My Indian Mutiny Diary'' (Periodicals Service Co, 1967), ISBN 0527781207<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)]]
