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|combatant2=Rebel Sepoys
|commander1=[http://www.oxforddnb.com/index/101024992/ Brig Thomas Seaton]
|commander2= Khan Ali Khan |strength1= 513 cavalry<br>1,201 infantry<br>161 gunners<br>6 guns|strength2= 4,000<br>4 guns
|casualties1=
|casualties2= 300 killed<br>2 guns
}}
== Field Force ==
*No 7 Light Field Battery
:One 24-pounder howitzer and five 9-pounders
:71 British and 90 Native troops
*A wing of the [[6th Dragoon Guards]] (140 troopers)
*[[15th (Cureton's Multani) Bengal Lancers|Mooltanee Regiment of Cavalry]] (373 sowars)
*1st Battalion [[60th Regiment of Foot|60th Rifles]] (468 men)
*Detachment of [[82nd Regiment of Foot|82nd Regiment]] (396 men)
*[[22nd Regiment of Bombay Infantry|22nd Poonah Infantry]] (337 men)
== Spelling Variants ==
Modern Name: Baragaon<br>
Variants: Bunkagaon/Bun-ka-gaon/Buragaon
== External Links ==
[http://www.britishempire.co.uk/forces/armycampaigns/indiancampaigns/mutiny/mutiny.htm The British Empire - Indian Mutiny 1857-58]The British Empire<br>[http://books.google.co.uk/books?id=3tc1AAAAMAAJ&pg=PA254&dq=Brigadier+Thomas+Seaton&as_brr=3&ei=1PfRSvavDJPyNPf-_d0N#v=onepage&q=Brigadier%20Thomas%20Seaton&f=false Sir thomas Seaton's dispatch] Google Books<br>[http://books.google.co.uk/books?id=mDUQAAAAYAAJ&pg=PA156&dq=Buragaon=rbgZSfC5AY6KswOqgtXGAQ#PPA156,M1 Buragaon - ] Gazetteer 1857]
== Recommended Reading ==
''"Indian Mutiny"'' by Saul David 2002 ISBN 0141005548<br>
''"My Indian Mutiny Diary"'' by WH Russell 1967 ISBN 0527781207
