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*Lieut C D Innes, Bengal Engneers
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|combatant1=[[East India Company]]
|combatant2=Rebel Sepoys
|commander1=Col Simpson, 6th BNI<br />[[James Neill|Lieut Col James Neill]]
|commander2=
|strength1= [[14th (Ferozepore) Regiment of Sikh Infantry|Regiment of Ferozepore]](400 men)
|strength2= [[6th Regiment of Bengal Native Infantry|6th Bengal Native Infantry]]
|casualties1= 50 killed
|casualties2=
}}
== Summary ==
The [[6th Regiment of Bengal Native Infantry|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. [[James Neill|Lieut Col James Neill]] arrived from Benares on 11 June with a detachment of [[1st Madras (European) Fusiliers|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
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