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    Punjab Brigadier-General Reginald Dyer: Amritsar

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    The Jallianwala Bagh massacre occurred on April 13, 1919 when British Brigadier-General Reginald Dyer ordered his troops to fire upon a large crowd of unarmed protesters and pilgrims who had gathered in Jallianwala Bagh garden in Amritsar, Punjab, India despite a recently declared curfew. Dyer's troops fired on the dense crowd for ten minutes, directing bullets towards the few open gates where people were trying to escape which resulted in 379 identified dead and approximately 1,100 wounded according to official British sources. However, other Indian National Congress sources estimated over 1,500 casualties with around 1,000 dead, shocking the nation and severely damaging trust in British rule in India.

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    The Jallianwala Bagh massacre occurred on April 13, 1919 when British Brigadier-General Reginald Dyer ordered his troops to fire upon a large crowd of unarmed protesters and pilgrims who had gathered in Jallianwala Bagh garden in Amritsar, Punjab, India despite a recently declared curfew. Dyer's troops fired on the dense crowd for ten minutes, directing bullets towards the few open gates where people were trying to escape which resulted in 379 identified dead and approximately 1,100 wounded according to official British sources. However, other Indian National Congress sources estimated over 1,500 casualties with around 1,000 dead, shocking the nation and severely damaging trust in British rule in India.

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    The Jallianwala Bagh massacre occurred on April 13, 1919 when British Brigadier-General Reginald Dyer ordered his troops to fire upon a large crowd of unarmed protesters and pilgrims who had gathered in Jallianwala Bagh garden in Amritsar, Punjab, India despite a recently declared curfew. Dyer's troops fired on the dense crowd for ten minutes, directing bullets towards the few open gates where people were trying to escape which resulted in 379 identified dead and approximately 1,100 wounded according to official British sources. However, other Indian National Congress sources estimated over 1,500 casualties with around 1,000 dead, shocking the nation and severely damaging trust in British rule in India.

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    Punjab Brigadier-General Reginald Dyer: Amritsar

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    The Jallianwala Bagh massacre, also known as the Amritsar massacre, was a seminal event in the British rule

    of India. On 13 April 1919, a crowd of non-violent protesters, along with


    Baishakhi pilgrims, had gathered in the Jallianwala Bagh garden in Amritsar, Punjab to protest against the arrest of two leaders [Dr.Satyapal and Dr.Saifuddin] despite a curfew which had been
    recently declared.[1] On the orders of Brigadier-General Reginald Dyer, the army fired on the crowd for ten minutes, directing their bullets largely towards the few open gates through which
    people were trying to run out. The figures released by the British government were 370 dead and 1200 wounded. Other sources place the number dead at well over 1000. This "brutality
    stunned the entire nation",[2] resulting in a "wrenching loss of faith" of the general public in the intentions of Britain. [3] The ineffective inquiry and the initial accolades for Dyer by the House of
    Lords fuelled widespread anger, leading to the Non-cooperation Movement of 192022.[4]

    On Sunday, 13 April 1919, Dyer was convinced of a major insurrection and he banned all meetings, however this notice was not widely disseminated. That was the day of Baisakhi, the main
    Sikh festival, and many villagers had gathered in the Bagh. On hearing that a meeting had assembled at Jallianwala Bagh, Dyer went with fifty Gurkha riflemen to a raised bank and ordered
    them to shoot at the crowd. Dyer continued the firing for about ten minutes, until the ammunition supply was almost exhausted; Dyer stated that 1,650 rounds had been fired, a number which
    seems to have been derived by counting empty cartridge cases picked up by the troops. [5] Official British Indian sources gave a figure of 379 identified dead,[5] with approximately 1,100
    wounded. The casualty number estimated by the Indian National Congress was more than 1,500, with approximately 1,000 dead. [6]

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