Mutiny at Allahabad
| Mutiny at Allahabad | ||
|---|---|---|
| Part of Indian Mutiny | ||
| Date: | 6 June 1857 | |
| Location: | Allahabad, Uttar Pradesh | |
| Presidency: | Bengal | |
| Co-ordinates: | 25.432248°N 81.870215°E | |
| Result: | Mutiny suppressed | |
| Combatants | ||
| East India Company | Rebel Sepoys | |
| Commanders | ||
| Col Simpson, 6th BNI Lieut Col James Neill |
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| Strength | ||
| Regiment of Ferozepore (400 men) | 6th Bengal Native Infantry | |
| Casualties | ||
| 50 killed | ||
Summary
The 6th Bengal Native Infantry volunteered to fight the rebels in Delhi and this lulled the Europeans in Allahabad into a sense of security. On 5 June Colonel Simpson was ordered to thank the regiment publicly but news from Benares led many civilians to form a militia and sleep the night in the fort. On the evening of 6 June the Bengal regiment rose and massacred officers at mess in the cantonment, many of them young ensigns. The sepoys then rampaged through the town, killing Europeans, releasing prisoners from gaol and plundering the treasury. The remaining Europeans took refuge with the garrison in the fort. Lieut Col James Neill arrived from Benares on 11 June with a detachment of Madras Fusiliers and entered the fort. Majl Stevenson with another detachment of Fusiliers arrived the next day. Neill managed to drive the rebels into the surrounding villages which he burnt one by one.
Casualties
Some recorded British casualties
- Captain Birch, Fort Adjutant
- Lieut Stewart, 6th BNI
- Lieut Hawes, 6th BNI
- Lieut C D Innes, Bengal Engneers
- Ensigns Scott, Cheek, Dodd, Smith and Way, ^th BNI
- Conductor Geoffrey Coleman, Bengal Commissariat
External Links
Indian Mutiny 1857-58 The British Empire
Mutiny at Allahabad archive.org
Uprising at Allahabad Google Books
Mutiny at Allahabad Google Books
Allahabad Gazetteer 1857
Allahabad, Uttar Pradesh Wikipedia
Historical Books on-line
The martyr of Allahabad; memorials of Ensign Arthur Marcus Hill Cheek, of the Sixth Native Bengal Infantry by Rev Robert Meek 1857 (archive.org)
Survey 1920-1946
