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“Battle of Bareilly (1858).” Hindu History, 2026, https://www.hinduhistory.in/battles/battle-of-bareilly-1858/. Accessed .
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Hindu History. (2026). Battle of Bareilly (1858). Retrieved , from https://www.hinduhistory.in/battles/battle-of-bareilly-1858/
Campbell drove the Rohilkhand army out of its positions and entered Bareilly on 7 May, but its leaders slipped away to fight on.
01Rohilkhand in 1857
The sepoys at Bareilly rose on 31 May 1857. Khan Bahadur Khan, an elderly grandson of the Rohilla chief Hafiz Rahmat Khan and a pensioner of the Company, was proclaimed governor in the name of Bahadur Shah. For almost a year he ran Rohilkhand, raised troops and sent men to Delhi. When Delhi and then Lucknow were lost, fighters from across Awadh fell back on Bareilly, and Nana Saheb was in the district for a time. It was the last large territory still outside Company control.
02The fight outside the city
Campbell converged on Bareilly with several columns and attacked on 5 May 1858. Khan Bahadur Khan’s guns opened from behind the Nakatia stream, and a body of swordsmen, remembered in British accounts as the Ghazis, charged straight into the Highland regiments and cut down a number of men before they were shot. The Company line held and pushed on. Two days later Campbell occupied the city. Khan Bahadur Khan withdrew towards the Terai and Nepal, was later handed over, and was hanged at Bareilly in 1860.
With Bareilly gone, the rising lost its last organised base in the north; the war after this was a long pursuit through Awadh and the Terai.
