Who was in the sepoy rebellion?

Answer 1

The Sepoy Rebellion (May 1857 - July 1859) was a revolt by Indian soldiers in the Bengal Army against their British officers. Before the rebellion was put down, it had spread through much of northern India.

In 1857, India was governed by Britain's East India Company, with British Army officers in command of Indian Army soldiers known as "Sepoys'. The incident that sparked the rebellion occurred on 31 March 1857 when a soldier from the 35th Sepoy Regiment at Barrackpore attacked a British sergeant. The Sepoy was quickly captured and hanged and as a demonstration of British power, the entire regiment was dismissed. Other Sepoys across India believed this punishment was too harsh, however.

Then on 9 May in Meerut, members of 3rd Light Cavalry Regiment were sentenced to ten years of hard labor and drummed out of service for refusing to obey orders that were in violation of their Hindu beliefs. They had been ordered to use rifle cartridges greased with beef fat. Te following day, member of the 11th and 20th Cavalry mutinied and killed their British officers, and then every European man-woman-child they could find, plus any Indian Christians. Then Sepoys in Dehli then joined the fight, killing every European in that city.

British troops then responded with equal ferocity, killing and hanging the rebels. The revolt spread throughout northern India into Lucknow, Kanpur, and Dehli, with the rebels finally defeated at Gwailor 20 June 1858. Although the Sepoy Rebellion basically ended with the signing of a peace treaty on 8 July 1858, small pockets of resistance held out until early 1859.

Soon thereafter, the British Government bought India from the East India Company, governing it until Indian Independence in 1947.

Answer 2

I'm not positive, but Robert Clive was the leader of the British East India Company so he might have been involved.

Answer 3

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