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== External Links ==
== External Links ==
[http://www.britishempire.co.uk/forces/armycampaigns/indiancampaigns/mutiny/mutiny.htm The British Empire - Indian Mutiny 1857-58]<br>[http://books.google.co.uk/books?id=VfgdAAAAMAAJ&pg=RA1-PA285&dq=Indian+Mutiny&lr=&as_brr=1&ei=N_iMR4rRBoOCsgPQtbDQBQ#PPA287,M1 Google Books - Action at Allygurh 24 August 1857] - Scroll to page 286
[http://www.britishempire.co.uk/forces/armycampaigns/indiancampaigns/mutiny/mutiny.htm The British Empire - Indian Mutiny 1857-58]<br>[http://books.google.co.uk/books?id=VfgdAAAAMAAJ&pg=RA1-PA285&dq=Indian+Mutiny&lr=&as_brr=1&ei=N_iMR4rRBoOCsgPQtbDQBQ#PPA287,M1 Google Books - Action at Allygurh 24 August 1857] - Scroll to page 286<br>[http://books.google.co.uk/books?id=mDUQAAAAYAAJ&pg=PA25&dq=Allygurh+Gazetteer+of+The+territories+under+the+Government+of+the+East+India+Company%2BCoimbatore&ei=rbgZSfC5AY6KswOqgtXGAQ#PPA25,M1 Allygurh - Gazetteer 1857]


== Recommended Reading ==
== Recommended Reading ==

Revision as of 18:11, 11 November 2008

Battle of Allygurh August 1857
Part of Indian Mutiny
Date: 24 August 1857
Location: Aligarh, Uttar Pradesh
Presidency: Bengal
Co-ordinates: 27.893754°N 78.068142°E
Result: British victory
Combatants
East India Company Rebel Sepoys
Commanders
Major Montgomery Ghose Mahomed Khan
Strength
307 troops
Two 9 pounders
One 24 pounder howitzer
6000 mutineers
Casualties

External Links

The British Empire - Indian Mutiny 1857-58
Google Books - Action at Allygurh 24 August 1857 - Scroll to page 286
Allygurh - Gazetteer 1857

Recommended Reading

"Indian Mutiny" by D Saul 2002 ISBN 0141005548
"My Indian Mutiny Diary" by WH Russell 1967 ISBN 0527781207