Sepoy Rebellion Definition & Meaning

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Sepoy Rebellion American

noun

1. a revolt of the sepoy troops in British India (1857–59), resulting in the transfer of the administration of India from the East India Company to the crown.

Sepoy Rebellion British

noun

1. the Indian Mutiny of 1857–58

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Something similar to the feeling in England during the Sepoy rebellion.

From Project Gutenberg

A cartoon which marked Tenniel's genius at its height, a cartoon worthy of being ranked with that which depicted the British Lion's vengeance on the Bengal Tiger after the atrocities of the Sepoy rebellion, was his famous "Dropping the Pilot," which was published on March 29, 1890, after William II. of Germany had decided to dispense with the services of the Iron Chancellor.

From Project Gutenberg

A few numbers later the illustrations began—the clever but terrible ones relating to the Sepoy rebellion.

From Project Gutenberg

Then suddenly, inconceivably, mutiny sweeps India, as indeed the Sepoy Rebellion did in 1857, and Novelist Farrell takes his Englishmen out of a quaint hunting print and frames them in a painting by Hieronymus Bosch.

From Time Magazine Archive

One of the historical heroines of India's freedom movement is the widowed Rani of Jhansi, who joined the 1857-1858 Sepoy Rebellion against British rule.

From Time Magazine Archive

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