Collier's New Encyclopedia (1921)/Havelock, Sir Henry

HAVELOCK, SIR HENRY, an English general; born in 1795. In 1856 he commanded a division of the army which invaded Persia. In 1857, upon the breaking out of the Sepoy mutiny, he made a forced march from Allahabad to Cawnpur, but reached the latter city too late to prevent the massacre which occurred there. After defeating the rebels in three different engagements, he continued his march toward Lucknow, then beleaguered by a formidable force of mutineers. After victoriously fighting eight more battles with the enemy, he fought his way through the besieging army around Lucknow, and accomplished the relief of its exhausted garrison. For this service he received general rank, was created a baronet, and decorated with the cross of the Bath. He died in 1857.