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[[Category:Battles|Cawnpore, Siege of]]
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|combatant1=[[East India Company]]
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'''This article is part of the [[Events at Cawnpore]] during the [[Indian Mutiny]]'''
== Synopsis ==
On 4 and 5 June the rank and file of the native regiments broke and fled towards Delhi leaving the native officers and 80 men who remained faithful. Nana Sahib induced the sepoys to return and attack the Europeans at Cawnpore. The siege began on 7 June. Wheeler moved his garrison outside the city to a small entrenchment consisting of a few barrack huts with a low earth rampart. They would have been better able to defend the magazine with its store of arms and ammunition. During the next 3 weeks one barrack hut was burned down and all the artillerymen killed. With food, water and ammunition nearly exhausted, capitulation was the only option for the defenders. They were offered safe conduct to [[Allahabad]] and on 27 June they were conducted to boats waiting at Satichaura Ghat on the Ganges. See [[Cawnpore (Satichaura Ghat)]] for subsequent events.
== Wheeler's Garrison ==
*One company of Artillery - 63 men, 16 women, 20 children
*[[84th Regiment of Foot|84th Regiment]] - 60 men, 55 women, 40 children
*[[32nd Regiment of Foot|32nd Regiment]] - 84 men, 45 women, 60 children
*[[1st Madras (European) Fusiliers|1st Madras Fusiliers]] - 15 men
*Musicians and other occupations - 45 men, 29 women, 100 children
*Non-military - 100 men, 80 women, 100 children
== Native Troops ==
*[[2nd Bengal Light Cavalry|2nd Light Cavalry]]
*[[1st Regiment of Bengal Native Infantry|1st Bengal Native Infantry]]
*[[53rd Regiment of Bengal Native Infantry|53rd Bengal Native Infantry]]
*[[56th Regiment of Bengal Native Infantry|56th Bengal Native Infantry]]
== External Links ==
[http://www.britishempire.co.uk/forces/armycampaigns/indiancampaigns/mutiny/mutiny.htm "Indian Mutiny 1857-58"] ''The British Empire''www.britishempire.co.uk<br>[http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Siege_of_Cawnpore "Siege of Cawnpore"] ''Wikipedia''<br>[http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Kanpur Kanpur, Uttar Pradesh] ''Wikipedia''<br>[http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Kanpur_Memorial_Church Kanpur Memorial Church] Wikipedia<br>[http://www.oxforddnb.com/index/101029186/ Maj Gen Sir Hugh Wheeler] ODNB
==== Historical books on-line ====
'' List of inscriptions on Christian tombs and tablets of historical interest in the United Provinces of Agra and Oudh'' by E A H Blunt ICS 1911 [http://www.archive.org/stream/listofinscriptio00blunuoft#page/106/mode/2up Description of the uprising and names on monuments of European victims] archive.org
== Recommended Reading ==
W H Russell, ''My Indian Mutiny Diary'' (Periodicals Service Co, 1967), ISBN 0527781207<br>
Andrew Ward, ''Our Bones are Scattered: the Cawnpore Massacres and the Indian Mutiny of 1857'' (McArthur & Co, 1996), ISBN 0719564107
[[Category:Battles|Cawnpore, Siege of]]
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