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|result=British victory
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|combatant1=[[East India Company]]  
|combatant1=[[East India Company]]  
|combatant2=Rebel Sepoys
|combatant2=Rebel Sepoys
|commander1=
|commander1=Colonel Rowcroft
|commander2=  
|commander2=Nazim Mahomed Hussein<br>Rajah of Gonda<br>Rajah of Churdah<br>Mehndee Ali Hussein
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|strength1= 1,300+
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|strength2= 12,000
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== HEIC Force ==
*200 Naval Brigade under Capt Sotheby RN
*200 Bengal Yeomanry Cavalry
*900 Goorkhas
*a few Sikhs
*4 guns

Revision as of 08:33, 25 September 2009

Battle of Goruckpore
Part of Indian Mutiny
Date: March 1858
Location: Gorakhpur, Uttar Pradesh
Presidency: Bengal
Co-ordinates: 26.756411°N 83.373643°E
Result: British victory
Combatants
East India Company Rebel Sepoys
Commanders
Colonel Rowcroft Nazim Mahomed Hussein
Rajah of Gonda
Rajah of Churdah
Mehndee Ali Hussein
Strength
1,300+ 12,000
Casualties

HEIC Force

  • 200 Naval Brigade under Capt Sotheby RN
  • 200 Bengal Yeomanry Cavalry
  • 900 Goorkhas
  • a few Sikhs
  • 4 guns