In British response, the cities of Delhi and Lucknow were destroyed in the battle and British vengeance.A rumour spread among the sepoys that the grease used. The rebels inflicted violence on both sides, on British officers and civilians, including women and children, and on the rebels and their sympathisers, including occasionally entire villages. The sepoy mutiny was a widespread but unsuccessful rebellion against British rule in India in 185758.Many Indians rebelled against the British yet many also fought for the British, and the majority appeared to be submissive to British rule. The revolt is known by several names: the Sepoy Mutiny (by the British Historians), the Indian Mutiny, the Great Rebellion (by the Indian Historians), the Revolt of 1857, the Indian Insurrection, and the First War of Independence (by Vinayak Damodar Savarkar). The revolting sepoys were cruelly beaten and imprisoned, but their enraged comrades killed the British commanders and marched on to Delhi, launching the 1857 insurrection.
This wounded both Hindus’ and Muslims’ religious feelings.They ransacked the nearby military station and killed any Europeans they could find.
The sepoy mutiny series#
Stuart wrote several series of military fiction and numerous other novels under various pseudonyms. The Indian uprising was fueled by resentments stemming from a variety of perspectives, including invasive British-style social changes, heavy land taxes, summary treatment of some wealthy landowners and princes, and scepticism about the benefits of British rule. Eighty-five members of the 3rd Bengal Light Cavalry, who had been jailed for refusing to use cartridges they believed to be at odds with their religion, were broken out of prison by their comrades. 'Stuart's saga of Captain Sheridan during the Mutiny stands in the shadow of no previous work of fiction, and for historical accuracy, writing verve and skill, and pace of narrative, stands alone.' -El Paso Times.
The mutiny or uprising occurred when the Indian troops refused to use the newly introduced rifle cartridges because they were greased by grease allegedly made of cow and pig fat. The Sepoy Mutiny or Sepoy Rebellion (1857-’59) began as a mutiny of Indian sepoys or soldiers of the British East India Company in military cantonments in eastern and northern India. The Sepoy Mutiny or the Indian Rebellion of 1857 was started by the Indian troops in the service of the English East India Company. The immediate cause of the Indian Revolt of 1857 was a seemingly minor change in the weapons used by the British East India Companys troops.
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