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  2. Timeline of the Indian Rebellion of 1857 - Wikipedia

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    Suppression of the revolt starts as thousands are slaughtered and Allan moves to Bihar 14 September: Wilson's assault on Delhi begins, Nicholson wounded 15 September: Rebellion of Muzaffarpur announced to accept leadership of Babu Kunwar Singh 19 September: Havelock and Outram marches to Lucknow 20 September: Delhi captured and cleared of rebel ...

  3. Indian Rebellion of 1857 - Wikipedia

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    Based on a rough comparison of the sketchy pre-1857 regional demographic data and the first 1871 Census of India, probably 800,000 Indians were killed, and very likely more, both in the rebellion and in the famines and epidemics of disease that were caused as a result in its immediate aftermath. [2

  4. Siege of Delhi - Wikipedia

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    The siege of Delhi was a decisive conflict of the Indian Rebellion of 1857.The rebellion against the authority of the East India Company was widespread through much of Northern India, but was essentially sparked by the mass uprising by the sepoys of the Bengal Army, which the company had itself raised in its Bengal Presidency (which actually covered a vast area from Assam to borders of Delhi).

  5. History of the Indian National Congress - Wikipedia

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    Rao later resigned as prime minister and, in September, as party president. [99] He was succeeded as president by Sitaram Kesri, the party's first non-Brahmin leader. [100] During the tenure of both Rao and Kesri, the two leaders conducted internal elections to the Congress working committees and their own posts as party presidents. [101]

  6. Siege of Lucknow - Wikipedia

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    The actual defended line was based on six detached smaller buildings and four entrenched batteries. The position covered some 60 acres (240,000 m 2 ) of ground, and the garrison (855 British officers and soldiers, 712 Indians, 153 civilian volunteers, with 1,280 non-combatants, including hundreds of women and children) was too small to defend ...

  7. Causes of the Indian Rebellion of 1857 - Wikipedia

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    Historians have identified diverse political, economic, military, religious and social causes of the Indian Rebellion of 1857 (first war of Indian independence). An uprising in several sepoy companies of the Bengal army was sparked by the issue of new gunpowder cartridges for the Enfield rifle in February 1857.

  8. Indian independence movement - Wikipedia

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    The British fought the main army of the rebels near Delhi, and after prolonged fighting and a siege, defeated them and reclaimed the city on 20 September 1857. [47] Subsequently, revolts in other centres were also crushed. The last significant battle was fought in Gwalior on 17 June 1858, during which Rani Lakshmibai was killed.

  9. Central Indian campaign of 1858 - Wikipedia

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    Tatya Tope's army. The Central India Field Force, under Sir Hugh Rose took the field around Indore in late December 1857. The force consisted of two small brigades only. About half the troops were Indian units from the Bombay Presidency army, which had not been affected to the same extent by the tensions which led the Bengal Army to