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Adding local short description: "Recipient of the Victoria Cross", overriding Wikidata description "Recipient of the Victoria Cross" (Shortdesc helper)

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{{short description|Recipient of the Victoria Cross}}
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{{Infobox military person
|name= Peter McManus
|birth_date=March 1829
|death_date= 27 April 1859 (aged 30)
|birth_place= [[Tynan]], [[County Armagh]]
|death_place=[[Allahabad]], [[British India]]
|placeofburial=
|image= Victoria Cross Medal without Bar.png
|image_size=125
|caption=
|nickname=
|allegiance= {{flagcountry|United Kingdom of Great Britain and Ireland}}
|serviceyears=
|rank=[[Sergeant]]
|branch=[[File:Flag of the British Army.svg|23px]] [[British Army]]
|commands=
|unit=[[5th Regiment of Foot]]
|battles=[[Indian Mutiny]]
|awards= [[Victoria Cross]]
|laterwork=
}}
'''Peter McManus''' [[Victoria Cross|VC]] (March 1829 – 27 April 1859) was born in [[Tynan]], [[County Armagh]], was an [[United Kingdom of Great Britain and Ireland|Irish]] recipient of the [[Victoria Cross]], the highest and most prestigious award for gallantry in the face of the enemy that can be awarded to [[United Kingdom|British]] and [[Commonwealth of Nations|Commonwealth]] forces.

==Details==
McManus was approximately 28 years old, and a [[private (rank)|private]] in the 1st Battalion, [[5th Regiment of Foot]] (later [[The Northumberland Fusiliers]]), [[British Army]] during the [[Indian Mutiny]] when the following deed took place on 26 September 1857 at [[Lucknow]], [[India]] for which he and Private [[John Ryan (VC 1857)|John Ryan]] was awarded the VC:
{{quote|A party, on the 26th of September, 1857, was shut up and besieged in a house in the city of Lucknow, by the rebel sepoys...Private McManus kept outside the house, until he was himself wounded, and under cover of a pillar, kept firing on the sepoys and preventing their rushing on the house. He also, in conjunction with Private John Ryan, rushed into the street, and
took Captain Arnold, of the 1st Madras Fusiliers, out of a dooly, and brought him into the house in spite of a heavy fire, in which Captain Arnold was again wounded.

(Extract from Divisional Orders of Major-General Sir James Outrun, G.C.B., dated 14 October 1857.)}}<ref>{{London Gazette|issue=22154|page=2958|date=18 June 1858}}</ref>

He later achieved the rank of [[sergeant]]. He died from [[smallpox]] in [[Allahabad]], [[British India]], on 27 April 1859.

==References==
{{Reflist}}
* ''[[The Register of the Victoria Cross]]'' (1981, 1988 and 1997)
*{{cite journal|first=Brian D. H.|last=Clarke|title=A register of awards to Irish-born officers and men|journal=[[The Irish Sword]]|volume=XVI|issue=64|pages=185–287|year=1986}}
* ''[[Ireland's VCs]]'' {{ISBN|1-899243-00-3}} (Dept of Economic Development, 1995)
* ''[[Monuments to Courage]]'' (David Harvey, 1999)
* ''[[Irish Winners of the Victoria Cross]]'' (Richard Doherty & David Truesdale, 2000)
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