April 18
April 18
The Chittagong armoury attack, also known as the Chittagong revolt, was an attempt on 18 April 1930 by armed Indian independence activists headed by Surya Sen to seize the armoury of police and auxiliary troops from the Chittagong armoury in the Bengal Presidency of British India. The raiders were members of the revolutionary Indian Republican Army, which advocated for military uprisings to free India from British colonial authority. They were inspired by Ireland's Easter Rising of 1916 and headed by Surya Sen. Sen designed a plan to seize Chittagong's two main armouries, demolish the telegraph and telephone office, and take hostages members of the European Club, the bulk of whom would also be attacked, while train and communication connections would be broken to cut Chittagong off from Calcutta. Chittagong's imperial banks were to be stolen in order to raise funds for future uprisings, and numerous prisoner revolutionaries were to be released.
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