On 23 April 1858 Veer Kunwar Singh defeated which British officer in the forest at Jagdishpur?
- A.Major Vincent Eyre
- B.Captain Le Grand
- C.General Lugard
- D.Herwald Wake
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Explanation
The correct answer is B, Captain Le Grand. Returning to his own district in the spring of 1858, Kunwar Singh met and defeated the force under Captain Le Grand in the forest near Jagdishpur on 23 April 1858 and re-entered his capital. The date is now marked in Bihar as Vijayotsav, and it is the last victory of his career.
Option A is wrong because Vincent Eyre was the officer of the 1857 campaign who had relieved Arrah. Option C is wrong because General Lugard commanded the British operations in Shahabad in 1858 but was not the officer beaten in this action. Option D is wrong because Herwald Wake was the magistrate who had held the house at Arrah during the siege of the previous year.
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Practice Questions
View allVeer Kunwar Singh, the leader of the revolt of 1857 in Bihar, was the zamindar of which place?
- A.Jagdishpur
- B.Danapur
- C.Rohtas
- D.Munger
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Kunwar Singh belonged to the Ujjainiya Rajput house of Jagdishpur in Shahabad district, a district since divided, so that Jagdishpur now falls in Bhojpur district of Bihar.
Read the full explanation →The sepoys who mutinied at Danapur on 25 July 1857 marched to which town, where Kunwar Singh took their command?
- A.Gaya
- B.Arrah
- C.Bhagalpur
- D.Muzaffarpur
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The three regiments of Indian sepoys at Danapur cantonment near Patna rose on 25 July 1857, crossed the Son river and reached Arrah, the headquarters of Shahabad district, where Kunwar Singh joined them and took command.
Read the full explanation →Which British officer relieved the besieged garrison at Arrah in August 1857?
- A.Major Vincent Eyre
- B.William Tayler
- C.Captain Le Grand
- D.Vicars Boyle
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A first relief column sent towards Arrah was ambushed and driven back, and it was the column under Major Vincent Eyre that defeated Kunwar Singh at Bibiganj in early August 1857, raised the siege of the house at Arrah and then went on to destroy Jagdishpur.
Read the full explanation →When did Veer Kunwar Singh die?
- A.3 August 1857
- B.23 April 1858
- C.26 April 1858
- D.9 May 1858
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Kunwar Singh was wounded in the fighting of his last campaign and died at Jagdishpur on 26 April 1858, three days after his victory over Captain Le Grand.
Read the full explanation →Who was the Commissioner of Patna during the revolt of 1857?
- A.William Tayler
- B.Vincent Eyre
- C.Henry Lawrence
- D.John Nicholson
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Tayler was the Commissioner of the Patna division in 1857, and it was he who arrested the leading suspects of the city, suppressed the rising of 3 July 1857 and ordered the hanging of Pir Ali Khan and others.
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