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Siege of Arrah

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|combatant1=[[East India Company]]
|combatant2=Rebel Sepoys
|commander1=Mr Herwald Wake<br>Major Dunbar<br>[http://www.metmuseum.org/Collections/search-the-collections/190041410 Major Vincent Eyre]
|commander2=[http://theyear1857.wordpress.com/2007/05/06/bihars-last-lion/ Koer Singh]
|strength1=8 Europeans<br>60 Sikhs of Rattray's Police Battalion
== Summary ==
Warned in advance that [http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Babu_Kunwar_Singh Kunwar Singh] took command of the sepoys who mutinied at [[Dinapore]] . Forewarned that they would attack [[Arrah]], the Europeans who remained behind fortified a bungalowwhere they held out for about ten days. A relief force from Dinapore under Captain Dunbar was driven back ambushed as they approached and forced to retreat with heavy casualties. [http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ross_Lowis_Mangles Ross Mangles] and it [http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/William_Fraser_McDonell William McDonnell] won VCs in the action. It wasn't until 3 August that Major Vincent Eyre dispersed the enemy and raised the siege.
 == Relief Force First relief force ==*[[37th Regiment of Foot|HM 37th Regiment]] (200 men)*[[10th Regiment of Foot|HM 10th Regiment]] (detachment)*50 Sikhs == Second relief force ==
160 men of [[5th Regiment of Foot|HM 5th Fusiliers]] and 3 guns<br>
under [http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Vincent_Eyre Major Vincent Eyre]
== External Links links ==
[http://www.britishempire.co.uk/forces/armycampaigns/indiancampaigns/mutiny/mutiny.htm Indian Mutiny 1857-58] The British Empire<br>
==== Historical books on-line online ====*''A turning point in the Indian Mutiny'' by I. Giberne Sieveking 1910 [http://www.archive.org/stream/turningpointinin00sieviala#page/18/mode/2up Siege of Arrah] www.archive.org<br>*''A History of the Great Revolt'' by John William Kaye 1864 [http://books.google.co.uk/books?id=NcMzo7SdYOwC&pg=PA142&lpg=PA142&dq=Herwald+Wake+Arrah&source=bl&ots=CHqfO5Woxd&sig=rQzDcv0o9uyZJAzUPFFMKdZMLKA&hl=en&sa=X&ei=A3xUUeDBMMnM0AXauICoCQ&sqi=2&ved=0CEoQ6AEwBQ#v=onepage&q=Herwald%20Wake%20Arrah&f=false Siege of Arrah] Google Books<br>*''A comprehensive history of India'' by Henry Beveridge 1862 [http://books.google.co.uk/books?id=wRENAAAAYAAJ&pg=PA645&dq=Arrah&as_brr=1&ei=sQSaR9zhH6DQiQG8oP3FAQ#PPA646,M1 Relief of Arrah] Google Books*[https://archive.org/details/b28987639 ''Arrah in 1857..''] Reprinted from a Pamphlet by John James Hall to which is added an account of…the Relief… by Charles Kelly. 1893 Archive.org.:[https://archive.org/details/in.ernet.dli.2015.121302 ''Two Months In Arrah In 1857''] by John James Halls, late Assistant Surgeon at the Civil Station of Arrah 1905, reprint of 1860 edition. Archive.org. Arrah was twenty four miles from [[Dinapore]].
== Recommended Reading ==
''"My Indian Mutiny Diary"'' by WH Russell 1967 ISBN 0527781207
[[Image:Arrahmap.jpg|thumb|Arrah Location<br>Survey 1920-1946]]
 
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