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|commander1=[http://www.archive.org/stream/dictionaryofindi00buckuoft#page/448/mode/1up/search/[Hugh Wheeler |Maj Gen Sir Hugh Wheeler]]|commander2=[http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Nana_Sahib [Nana Sahib ]] (Dhondu Pant)]<br>[http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Tatya_Tope [Tatya Tope]]
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'''This article is part of the [[Events at Cawnpore]] during the [[Indian Mutiny]]'''
== Synopsis ==
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>
== 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>*Andrew Ward, ''Our Bones are Scattered: the Cawnpore Massacres and the Indian Mutiny of 1857'' (McArthur & Co, 1996), ISBN 0719564107
==References==
[[Category:Battles|Cawnpore (Satichaura Ghat)]]
[[Category:Oude CampaignEvents at Cawnpore|Cawnpore (Satichaura Ghat)]]
[[Category:Indian Mutiny|Cawnpore (Satichaura Ghat)]]
