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'''This article is part of the [[Events at Cawnpore]] during the [[Indian Mutiny]]'''


== Synopsis ==
== Synopsis ==

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Recapture of Cawnpore July 1857
Part of Indian Mutiny
Date: 16 July 1857
Location: Cawnpore Uttar Pradesh
Presidency: Bengal
Co-ordinates: 26.470876°N 80.371896°E
Result: City recaptured
Combatants
East India Company Rebel Sepoys
Commanders
General Sir Henry Havelock Tatya Tope
Strength
Casualties

This article is part of the Events at Cawnpore during the Indian Mutiny

Synopsis

Having fought five successful actions since leaving Allahabad on 1 July, Havelock finally recaptured Cawnpore.

Biographies

Entries in the Dictionary of Indian Biography 1906:
Henry Havelock (1795-1857)
Tantya Tope (1819-59)

External Links

Indian Mutiny 1857-5 The British Empire
Recapture of Cawnpore Wikipedia
Kanpur, Uttar Pradesh Wikipedia

Recommended Reading

Saul David, Indian Mutiny: 1857 (London: Viking, 2002), ISBN 0670911372 ; (Penguin, 2002), ISBN 0141005548
W H Russell, My Indian Mutiny Diary (Periodicals Service Co, 1967), ISBN 0527781207
Andrew Ward, Our Bones are Scattered: the Cawnpore Massacres and the Indian Mutiny of 1857 (McArthur & Co, 1996), ISBN 0719564107