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Tatya TopeGeneral of 1857

In June 1858 he and Rani Lakshmibai took Gwalior, and after her death he kept a running war through central India for ten months until he was betrayed and hanged at Shivpuri in April 1859.

1814 – 18 April 1859

The full life
1Born at Yeola, Nashik district; most sources give 1814.
2Captured on 7 April 1859 after Man Singh of Narwar betrayed him.Tatya Tope · The British · Man Singh of Narwar
3Hanged at Shivpuri on 18 April 1859.Tatya Tope
4India issued a stamp in his memory in 1984.Tatya Tope
5His given name was Ramchandra Pandurang.Tatya Tope

Sources for these facts

  • Statement of Tatya Tope at his trial, Shivpuri, April 1859
  • S. N. Sen, Eighteen Fifty-Seven (1957)
  • Kaye and Malleson, History of the Indian Mutiny (1888–89)

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