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Sepoy - Wikipedia The term sepoy came into common use in the forces of the British East India Company in the eighteenth century, where it was one of a number of names, such as peons, gentoos, mestees and topasses, used for various categories of native soldier
Sepoy - World History Encyclopedia The term sepoy derives from a corruption of the Persian term sipahi, illustrating that it was the armies of the Mughal Empire (1526 to 1857) in India who first used these locally-recruited troops as musket-armed infantry
The Sepoy Mutiny of 1857: The Uprising That Shook the British Empire On May 10, 1857, the simmering tensions boiled over in Meerut, a key military cantonment in northern India Following the imprisonment of several sepoys who refused to use the controversial cartridges, their fellow soldiers broke ranks, openly rebelling against British authority
Why Did the Sepoys Rebel in 1857? - ThoughtCo In order to open the cartridges and load the rifles, soldiers (known as sepoys) had to bite into the paper and tear it with their teeth Rumors began to spread in 1856 that the grease on the cartridges was made from a mixture of beef tallow and pork lard
sepoy - Wiktionary, the free dictionary sepoy (plural sepoys) (historical, military) A native soldier of the East Indies, employed in the service of a European colonial power, notably the British India army (first under the British-chartered East India Company, later in the crown colony), but also France and Portugal quotations
The Sepoy Rebellion - Digital Inquiry Group In May 1857, a group of Indian soldiers in the British East India Company’s army led a mutiny in the state of Uttar Pradesh The mutiny soon escalated into an uprising of sepoys and Indian civilians throughout northern India