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== Summary ==
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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. 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/195/mode/1up Henry Havelock (1795-1857)]<br>
[http://www.archive.org/stream/dictionaryofindi00buckuoft#page/311/mode/1up Nana Sahib (1819-59)]<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 ==
==== 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.
 
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Synopsis

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

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 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:
Henry Havelock (1795-1857)
Nana Sahib (1819-59)
James Neill (1810-1857)
James Outram (1803-1863)
Tantya Tope (1820-59)
Charles Winham (1810-1870)

External links

Historical books online

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