Ramachandra Pandurang Tope (1814 – 18 April 1859), also known as Tatya Tope , was an Indian leader in the Indian Rebellion of 1857 and one of its finest generals.
He was a personal adherent of Nana Sahib of Kanpur. He progressed with the Gwalior contingent after the British reoccupation of Kanpur and forced General Windham to retreat from Kanpur.
Later on, he came to the rescue of Rani Laxmi Bai. However he was defeated by General Napier's British Indian troops after the betrayal of his trusted friend Man Singh.
He was executed by the British Government at Shivpuri on 18 April 1859.Born in a village called Yeola in Maharashtra, he was the only son of Pandurang Rao Tope and his wife Rukhmabai. 
In 1814, when James Andrew Broun-Ramsay, 1st Marquess of Dalhousie deprived Nana Sahib of his father's pension, Tatya Tope also became a sworn enemy of the British.
Nana Sahib's forces attacked the British entrenchment at Kanpur in June 1857. The low supplies of food, water and medicine added to the misery of the British Forces who decided to surrender in return for a safe passage to Allahabad.
Nana Sahib agreed to this and made arrangements as best as he could. At the Satichaura ghat, rebel sepoys not under Nana Sahibs command attacked the departing British troops to settle old scores.
Many of General Wheelers men were either killed or captured. The surviving British women and children were moved from the Savada House to Bibighar "the House of the Ladies", a villa-type house in Kanpur. 
Nana Sahib was informed that the British troops led by Havelock and Neill had indulged in violence against Indian villagers and were continuing with this violence as a 'tactic' . Some sepoys were ordered to kill the women and children who were being held, but they refused. troops leaving gravesend for india
He was a personal adherent of Nana Sahib of Kanpur. He progressed with the Gwalior contingent after the British reoccupation of Kanpur and forced General Windham to retreat from Kanpur. Later on, he came to the rescue of Rani Laxmi Bai. However he was defeated by General Napier's British Indian troops after the betrayal of his trusted friend Man Singh. He was executed by the British Government at Shivpuri on 18 April 1859.Born in a village called Yeola in Maharashtra, he was the only son of Pandurang Rao Tope and his wife Rukhmabai. In 1814, when James Andrew Broun-Ramsay, 1st Marquess of Dalhousie deprived Nana Sahib of his father's pension, Tatya Tope also became a sworn enemy of the British.Nana Sahib's forces attacked the British entrenchment at Kanpur in June 1857. The low supplies of food, water and medicine added to the misery of the British Forces who decided to surrender in return for a safe passage to Allahabad.
Nana Sahib agreed to this and made arrangements as best as he could. At the Satichaura ghat, rebel sepoys not under Nana Sahibs command attacked the departing British troops to settle old scores. Members of the Sirmoor Battalion, Indian Mutiny, 1858
Many of General Wheelers men were either killed or captured. The surviving British women and children were moved from the Savada House to Bibighar "the House of the Ladies", a villa-type house in Kanpur. Nana Sahib was informed that the British troops led by Havelock and Neill had indulged in violence against Indian villagers and were continuing with this violence as a 'tactic' . Some sepoys were ordered to kill the women and children who were being held, but they refused. troops leaving gravesend for indiaAfter losing Gwalior to the British, Tope launched a successful campaign in the Sagar, Madhya Pradesh and Narmada River regions and in Khandesh and Rajasthan. He took shelter for some time in Nadiad ni haveli with Bhausaheb Desai of Nadiad.
The British forces failed to subdue him for over a year. He was however betrayed into the hands of the British by his trusted friend, Man Singh, Chief of Narwar while asleep in his camp in the Paron forest. He was defeated and captured on 7 April 1859 by British General Richard John Meade's troops and escorted to Shivpuri where he was tried by a military court.
Tope admitted the charges brought before him saying that he was answerable to his master Peshwa only. He was executed at the gallows on April 18 1859. There is a statue of Tatya Tope at the site of his execution near the present collectorate in Shivpuri town in Madhya Pradesh.
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