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Babu Veer Kunwar SinghEighty-Year-Old Lion of Jagdishpur

Near eighty, he led the rising in Shahabad in 1857, and on 23 April 1858 beat a British column at Jagdishpur three days before he died of his wounds.

13 November 1777 – 26 April 1858

The full life
1Some sources, including a 2016 Indian stamp, give his birth year as 1782.Babu Kunwar Singh
2Siege of the Arrah house: 27 July – 3 August 1857.Babu Kunwar Singh · The sepoys
3Took Azamgarh in March 1858.Babu Kunwar Singh · The people
4Defeated Captain Le Grand at Jagdishpur on 23 April 1858.Babu Kunwar Singh · The British
5Head of the Ujjainiya Rajput estate of Jagdishpur, Shahabad (now Bhojpur), Bihar.Babu Kunwar Singh · The people

Sources for these facts

  • K. K. Datta, Biography of Kunwar Singh and Amar Singh (1957)
  • S. N. Sen, Eighteen Fifty-Seven (1957)

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