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recruited soldiers within India, mainly consisting of infantry designated as "sepoys".

Light Infantry, was a mutiny involving up to half of a regiment of 850 sepoys (Indian soldiers) against the British in Singapore during the First World.

The rebellion began on 10 May 1857 in the form of a mutiny of sepoys of the Company's army in the garrison town of Meerut, 40 mi (64 km) northeast.

1806 was the first instance of a large-scale and violent mutiny by Indian sepoys against the East India Company, predating the Indian Rebellion of 1857 by.

trying to defend the two Englishmen called upon the other sepoys to assist him.

Assailed by sepoys who threw stones and shoes at his back, Shaikh Paltu called.

with the best of Bombay sepoys "paying a regard to those having families on the island".

It had only native officers and all sepoys wore red coats faced.

Northern India, but essentially it was sparked by the mass uprising by the sepoys of the units of the Army which the company had itself raised in its Bengal.

once the rebellion was underway, Mughal Emperor Bahadur Shah Zafar met the sepoys on 11 May 1857, he was told: "We have joined hands to protect our religion.

About 700 British East India Company recruits and sepoys under the command of Robert Clive captured the fortress of Chingleput, near.

It was attended by several sepoys who were described as treating him "familiarly or disrespectfully".

When the sepoys first arrived at Bahadur Shah.

Police Battalion, against 2,500–3,000 mutinying Bengal Native Infantry sepoys from three regiments and an estimated 8,000 men from irregular forces commanded.

Of the losses by the sepoys, four Madras and nine Bengal sepoys were killed while nineteen Madras and eleven Bengal sepoys were wounded.

The sepoys (Indian soldiers) of the East India Company's Bengal Presidency Army had.

The Barrackpore mutiny was a rising of native Indian sepoys against their British officers in Barrackpore in November 1824.