Recapture of Cawnpore July 1857

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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

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