What is Tatya Tope?
{{Infobox person | name = Tatya Tope | birth_name = Panduranga Yewalkar | birth_date = 16 February 1814 | birth_place = Yeola, Nasik, [[Maratha Empire]] | death_date = {{death date and age|1859|4|18|1814|2|16|df=yes}} | death_place = Sipri, Gwalior State, [[British India]] | alma_mater = | image = Tantia-Topi-April-1859.jpg | caption = Pencil sketch of Tatya Top made at Sipri in April 1859, just before his execution | other_names = Panduranga Yewalkar | movement = [[Indian Rebellion of 1857]] | monuments = Tatya Tope Memorial Madhya Pradesh | influences = | influenced = | footnotes = }} '''Tatya Tope''' also spelled '''Tantia Tope'''{{efn|Some sources also spell the name as Tantia Tope or Tantia Topi<ref name=bra >{{cite web |url = https://www.britannica.com/biography/Tantia-Tope|title = Tantia Tope |date = 19 December 2014 |website = Encyclopædia Britannica |access-date = 12 December 2014}}</ref>}} (16 February 1814 — 18 April 1859), was an Indian [[freedom fighter]]. He was a [[General officer|General]] in the [[Indian Rebellion of 1857]].<ref name=Agnihotri418>''Indian History'', ed. V.K. Agnihotri (New Deli: Allied Publishers, 2010), p. C-418</ref> His full name is '''Ramachandra Pandurang Tope'''. Tope was a close [[wikt:associate|associate]] of [[Nana Saheb]].<ref name=MOI>{{cite web |url=http://www.mapsofindia.com/on-this-day/18-april-1859-tatya-tope-leader-of-1857-indian-rebellion-died |title=18 April 1859: Tatya Tope, leader of 1857 Indian Rebellion, died |publisher=Maps of India |access-date=January 22, 2017}}</ref> Tope and Sahib led the Indian forces in the Siege of Cawnpore.<ref name=MOI/> The [[British]] [[East India Company]] [[surrender (military)|surrender]]ed and were told they could have safe passage. But they were attacked by Indian forces and all but 210 women and children were killed. He fought valiantly against the British in 1857. He was very loyal to