Fatehgarh

Fatehgarh, the cantonment and administrative headquarters of Farukhabad district, lies 3 miles E. of the native city of Farukhabad, with which it forms a joint municipality. Government has here an important gun-carriage factory; and there are flourishing settlements of native Christians, established by the American Presbyterian Mission, which was formed in 1838. A British military station since 1802, the place was attacked by Holkar in 1804, and is infamous in the annals of the mutiny of 1857, in the course of which upwards of 200 Europeans—men, women, and children—mostly fugitives brought back after escaping down the Ganges, were sabred or shot by the rebels, either here or at Cawnpore. Pop. 12,435.