Hugh Wheeler (East India Company officer), Date of Birth, Place of Birth, Date of Death

Hugh Wheeler (East India Company officer)

British army officer of the East India Company

Date of Birth: 30-Jun-1789

Place of Birth: Ireland

Date of Death: 27-Jun-1857

Profession: military personnel

Zodiac Sign: Cancer

Sir Hugh Massy Wheeler KCB (30 June 1789 – 27 June 1857) was an officer in the army of the East India Company.
He commanded troops in the First Anglo-Afghan War, and the First and Second Anglo-Sikh Wars, and in 1856 was appointed commander of the garrison at Cawnpore (now Kanpur).
He is chiefly remembered for the disastrous end to a long and successful military career, when his defence of Wheeler's entrenchment and surrender to Nana Sahib during the Indian Rebellion of 1857 led to the annihilation of almost all the European, Eurasian and Christian Indian population of Cawnpore, himself and several members of his family included.