Arrah, a town of Bengal, 320 miles NW. of Calcutta by rail. Here in 1857 a dozen Englishmen, with 50 Sikhs, held out for eight days against 3000 sepoys. A force despatched to their aid fell into an ambuscade, and lost 290 out of 415 men; but finally they were relieved by Major Eyre. Pop. (1881) 42,998; (1891) 46,905.
Arrah,
Chambers's Encyclopaedia, Volume 1: A to Beaufort, p. 447
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