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== Summary ==
[http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Babu_Kunwar_Singh Babu Kunwar Singh] {recorded as Koer Singh in British accounts) was a wealthy land owner in the Shahabad district who joined the insurgents soon after the Mutiny at Dinapore.


== Goruckpore Field Force ==
{|
|HQ Bengal Yeomanry Cavalry
|130 men
|under
|Maj Richardson
|-
|Detachment [[6th Madras Native Cavalry|6th Madras Cavalry]]
|40 men
|
|-
|[[Madras Horse Artillery|No 2 Madras Horse Light Field Battery]]
|4 guns
|under
|Capt Cadell
|-
|[[Pearl's Naval Brigade]]
|90 men + 4 guns
|under
|Capt Sotheby RN
|-
|[[13th Regiment of Foot|HM 13th Light Infantry]]
|400 men
|under
|Maj Tyler
|-
|[[14th (Ferozepore) Regiment of Sikh Infantry|Regiment of Ferozepore]]
|250 men
|under
|Lt-Col Brasyer CB
|-
|Detachment [[87th Punjab Regiment|27th Madras Native Infantry]]
|60 men
|under
|Lt Shaw
|}

== External LInks ==
[http://books.google.co.uk/books?id=hsVGAAAAIAAJ&pg=PA1&dq=The+Cruise+of+HMS+Pearl#v=onepage&q=The%20Cruise%20of%20HMS%20Pearl&f=false The Cruise of the Pearl] Google Books<br>
[http://www.pdavis.nl/Mutiny.htm Naval Brigades in the Indian Mutiny] W L Clowes<br>
[http://www.pdavis.nl/ShowBiog.php?id=733 Biography of Captain Sotheby RN] www.pdavis.nl/<br>
[http://books.google.com/books?id=BWLypQe-OsEC&pg=PA357&dq=Sotheby+Clifton+Portsmouth&lr=&as_brr=3#v=onepage&q=Sotheby%20Clifton%20Portsmouth&f=false Short biography of Captain Edward Sotheby RN] Google Books

[[Category:Trans-Gogra Campaign| Trans-Gogra Campaign]]
[[Category:Indian Mutiny| Trans-Gogra Campaign]]
[[Category:Campaigns with FIBIS Battle Maps|Trans-Gogra Campaign]]

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