Frederick MackesonLieutenant colonel Frederick Mackeson CB (2 September 1807 – 14 September 1853) was an East India Company officer operating in the North West Frontier of British India and one of Henry Lawrence's "Young Men".
Henry Lawrence (Indian Army officer)Brigadier-GeneralSir Henry Montgomery Lawrence (28 June 1806 – 4 July 1857) was a Bengal Army officer, surveyor and colonial administrator. He is known for leading a group of British officials in the Punjab known as Henry Lawrence's "Young Men", founding the Lawrence Military Asylums and for dying at the siege of Lucknow during the Indian Rebellion of 1857. BackgroundLawrence was born in June 1806 into an Ulster-Scots family at Matara in Ceylon.
George St Patrick LawrenceLieutenant GeneralSir George St Patrick Lawrence, KCSI, CB (17 March 1804 – 16 November 1884) was an officer in the British Indian Army. Early lifeLawrence, third son of Lieutenant Colonel Alexander Lawrence (1764–1835), was elder brother of both Sir Henry Lawrence and John Lawrence, 1st Baron Lawrence.
LahoreCapital of Punjab, PakistanMegacity in Punjab, PakistanLahore is the capital and largest city of the Pakistani province of Punjab. It is the second-largest city in Pakistan, after Karachi, and 27th largest in the world, with a population of over 14 million. Lahore is one of Pakistan's major industrial, educational and economic hubs.
William Stephen Raikes HodsonWilliam Stephen Raikes Hodson (19 March 1821 – 11 March 1858) was an English leader who raised and commanded an irregular light cavalry regiment during the Indian Rebellion of 1857. He was known as "Hodson of Hodson's Horse". The most celebrated action during his military tenure was to apprehend Bahadur Shah II, the Mughal Emperor of India.
First Anglo-Sikh WarBelligerentsBritish EmpireEast India CompanySupported by:Patiala StateJind StateSikh EmpireLadwa StateCommanders and leadersSir Hugh GoughHenry HardingeHarry SmithRobert Sale (DOW)Robert Dick†Walter GilbertHenry LawrenceGeorge Broadfoot†Jind KaurRanjodh MajithiaTej SinghLal SinghAkali Singh†Sham Attariwala†Casualties and losses2,591 killed4,063 wounded77 captured69 guns10,300 killed5,000 wounded204 gunsThe First Anglo-Sikh War was fought between the Sikh Empire and the British Empire from 1845 to 1846 around the Firozpur district of Punjab.
East India CompanyBritish joint-stock company (1600–1874)The East India Company (EIC) was an English, and later British, joint-stock company that was founded in 1600 and dissolved in 1874. It was formed for Indian Ocean trade, initially with the East Indies (which included the Indian subcontinent and Southeast Asia), and later with East Asia. The company gained control of large parts of the Indian subcontinent and Hong Kong.
SindhProvince of PakistanProvince in PakistanSindh is a province of Pakistan, located in the southeastern region of the country. It is the third-largest Pakistani province by land area and second-largest by population. It is bounded by the Arabian Sea to the south and borders the provinces of Balochistan to the west and Punjab to the north; in addition to sharing an international border with the Indian states of Gujarat and Rajasthan to the east.
James Abbott (Indian Army officer)General Sir James Abbott (12 March 1807 – 6 October 1896) was a British Bengal Army officer and colonial administrator. The city of Abbottabad, Pakistan, was founded by and subsequently named after him.
PunjabPunjab ( pun-JAHB; Punjabi: Panjāb, pronounced [pəɲˈd͡ʒaːb] ) is a geographical, ethnolinguistic, and historical region in South Asia, located in its northwestern part, comprising areas of modern-day Pakistan and northwestern India. Lahore is its largest city and historic capital, with other major cities including Faisalabad, Rawalpindi, Gujranwala, Multan, and Sialkot in Pakistan; alongside Ludhiana, Amritsar, Chandigarh, Jalandhar, and Patiala in India.
Indian Rebellion of 1857Uprising against British Company ruleBelligerentsMughal EmpireSepoymutineersOudh StateRampur StateForces of Rani Lakshmibai of JhansiForces of Nana Sahib Peshwa IIJagdishpurGwalior factionsJodhpur factionsBandaVarious other groupsUnited Kingdom of Great Britain and IrelandEast India CompanyRajputana AgencyPatialaKapurthalaRampurJodhpurNabhaKingdom of NepalCommanders and leadersBahadur Shah II (POW)Nana SahibRani Lakshmibai †Tatya Tope Bakht Khan †Begum Hazrat MahalKunwar Singh (DOW)The Earl CanningGeorge Anson †Sir Patrick GrantSir Colin CampbellSir Hugh RoseSir Henry Havelock †Sir James OutramSir Henry Lawrence (DOW)James Neill †John Nicholson †Surendra Bikram ShahDhir Shamsher RanaRandhir SinghSir Yusef Ali KhanCasualties and losses 6,000 British killed, including civiliansBased on a rough comparison of the dubious 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 itself and in the famines and epidemics that it caused.The Indian Rebellion of 1857 was a major uprising in India in 1857–58 against the rule of the British East India Company, which functioned as a sovereign power on behalf of the British Crown.
Military history of the North-West FrontierThe North-West Frontier (present-day Khyber Pakhtunkhwa) was a region of the British Indian Empire. It remains the western frontier of present-day Pakistan, extending from the Pamir Knot in the north to the Koh-i-Malik Siah in the west, and separating the modern Pakistani frontier regions of North-West Frontier Province (renamed as Khyber Pakhtunkhwa), Federally Administered Tribal Areas and Balochistan from neighbouring Afghanistan in the west.
Henry Lawrence (Indian Army officer)Brigadier-GeneralSir Henry Montgomery Lawrence (28 June 1806 – 4 July 1857) was a Bengal Army officer, surveyor and colonial administrator. He is known for leading a group of British officials in the Punjab known as Henry Lawrence's "Young Men", founding the Lawrence Military Asylums and for dying at the siege of Lucknow during the Indian Rebellion of 1857. BackgroundLawrence was born in June 1806 into an Ulster-Scots family at Matara in Ceylon.George St Patrick LawrenceLieutenant GeneralSir George St Patrick Lawrence, KCSI, CB (17 March 1804 – 16 November 1884) was an officer in the British Indian Army. Early lifeLawrence, third son of Lieutenant Colonel Alexander Lawrence (1764–1835), was elder brother of both Sir Henry Lawrence and John Lawrence, 1st Baron Lawrence.LahoreCapital of Punjab, PakistanMegacity in Punjab, PakistanLahore is the capital and largest city of the Pakistani province of Punjab. It is the second-largest city in Pakistan, after Karachi, and 27th largest in the world, with a population of over 14 million. Lahore is one of Pakistan's major industrial, educational and economic hubs.William Stephen Raikes HodsonWilliam Stephen Raikes Hodson (19 March 1821 – 11 March 1858) was an English leader who raised and commanded an irregular light cavalry regiment during the Indian Rebellion of 1857. He was known as "Hodson of Hodson's Horse". The most celebrated action during his military tenure was to apprehend Bahadur Shah II, the Mughal Emperor of India.First Anglo-Sikh WarBelligerentsBritish EmpireEast India CompanySupported by:Patiala StateJind StateSikh EmpireLadwa StateCommanders and leadersSir Hugh GoughHenry HardingeHarry SmithRobert Sale (DOW)Robert Dick†Walter GilbertHenry LawrenceGeorge Broadfoot†Jind KaurRanjodh MajithiaTej SinghLal SinghAkali Singh†Sham Attariwala†Casualties and losses2,591 killed4,063 wounded77 captured69 guns10,300 killed5,000 wounded204 gunsThe First Anglo-Sikh War was fought between the Sikh Empire and the British Empire from 1845 to 1846 around the Firozpur district of Punjab.East India CompanyBritish joint-stock company (1600–1874)The East India Company (EIC) was an English, and later British, joint-stock company that was founded in 1600 and dissolved in 1874. It was formed for Indian Ocean trade, initially with the East Indies (which included the Indian subcontinent and Southeast Asia), and later with East Asia. The company gained control of large parts of the Indian subcontinent and Hong Kong.SindhProvince of PakistanProvince in PakistanSindh is a province of Pakistan, located in the southeastern region of the country. It is the third-largest Pakistani province by land area and second-largest by population. It is bounded by the Arabian Sea to the south and borders the provinces of Balochistan to the west and Punjab to the north; in addition to sharing an international border with the Indian states of Gujarat and Rajasthan to the east.James Abbott (Indian Army officer)General Sir James Abbott (12 March 1807 – 6 October 1896) was a British Bengal Army officer and colonial administrator. The city of Abbottabad, Pakistan, was founded by and subsequently named after him.PunjabPunjab ( pun-JAHB; Punjabi: Panjāb, pronounced [pəɲˈd͡ʒaːb] ) is a geographical, ethnolinguistic, and historical region in South Asia, located in its northwestern part, comprising areas of modern-day Pakistan and northwestern India. Lahore is its largest city and historic capital, with other major cities including Faisalabad, Rawalpindi, Gujranwala, Multan, and Sialkot in Pakistan; alongside Ludhiana, Amritsar, Chandigarh, Jalandhar, and Patiala in India.Indian Rebellion of 1857Uprising against British Company ruleBelligerentsMughal EmpireSepoymutineersOudh StateRampur StateForces of Rani Lakshmibai of JhansiForces of Nana Sahib Peshwa IIJagdishpurGwalior factionsJodhpur factionsBandaVarious other groupsUnited Kingdom of Great Britain and IrelandEast India CompanyRajputana AgencyPatialaKapurthalaRampurJodhpurNabhaKingdom of NepalCommanders and leadersBahadur Shah II (POW)Nana SahibRani Lakshmibai †Tatya Tope Bakht Khan †Begum Hazrat MahalKunwar Singh (DOW)The Earl CanningGeorge Anson †Sir Patrick GrantSir Colin CampbellSir Hugh RoseSir Henry Havelock †Sir James OutramSir Henry Lawrence (DOW)James Neill †John Nicholson †Surendra Bikram ShahDhir Shamsher RanaRandhir SinghSir Yusef Ali KhanCasualties and losses 6,000 British killed, including civiliansBased on a rough comparison of the dubious 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 itself and in the famines and epidemics that it caused.The Indian Rebellion of 1857 was a major uprising in India in 1857–58 against the rule of the British East India Company, which functioned as a sovereign power on behalf of the British Crown.Military history of the North-West FrontierThe North-West Frontier (present-day Khyber Pakhtunkhwa) was a region of the British Indian Empire. It remains the western frontier of present-day Pakistan, extending from the Pamir Knot in the north to the Koh-i-Malik Siah in the west, and separating the modern Pakistani frontier regions of North-West Frontier Province (renamed as Khyber Pakhtunkhwa), Federally Administered Tribal Areas and Balochistan from neighbouring Afghanistan in the west.*As an Amazon Associate I earn from qualifying purchases.