Sepoy example sentences

Some men pointed out that in forty years' service nothing had ever been done by the Sarkar to insult their religion, but as I have already mentioned the sepoys' minds had been inflamed by the seizure of Oudh.So the anger of the peasants quickly spread among the sepoys.In Jhansi, Rani Lakshmibai joined the rebel sepoys and fought the British along with Tantia Tope, the general of Nana Saheb.Sepoys mutinied in several places beginning from Meerut and a large number of people from different sections of society rose up in rebellion.In Bihar, an old zamindar, Kunwar Singh, joined the rebel sepoys and battled with the British for many months.Sepoys also reacted to what was happening in the countryside.The sepoys said: the English were determined to wipe out the religions of the Hindus and the Muslims … they had made a list of eighty-four rules and announced these in a gathering of all big kings and princes in Calcutta.The sepoys of Meerut rode all night of 10 May to reach Delhi in the early hours next morning.Nevertheless, hundreds of sepoys, rebels, nawabs and rajas were tried and hanged.The Indian sepoys in the employ of the Company also had reasons for discontent.Some days later, some sepoys of the regiment at Meerut refused to do the army drill using the new cartridges, which were suspected of being coated with the fat of cows and pigs.They worked upon the feelings of sepoys, telling them how treacherously the foreigners had behaved towards their king.Eighty-five sepoys were dismissed from service and sentenced to ten years in jail for disobeying their officers.He completed the writing in 1861 in Awadhi and Norgate translated it into English and had it published under the title From Sepoy to Subedar.On 10 May, the soldiers marched to the jail in Meerut and released the imprisoned sepoys.