HMS Sepoy was a 4-gun Albacore-class gunboat of the Royal Navy launched in 1856 and broken up in 1868. The Albacore class was ordered to meet the sudden...
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was cancelled in 1849. HMS Sepoy (1856) was a wooden Albacore-class screw gunboat launched in 1856 and broken up in 1868. HMS Sepoy (1918) was an S-class...
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HMS Cadmus was a wooden screw corvette launched on 20 May 1856 at Chatham Dockyard. On 4 January 1865, she ran aground at Chatham, Kent. She was refloated...
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Peacock (1856) Pheasant (1856) Primrose (1856) Pickle (1856) Prompt (1856) Porpoise (1856) Firm (1856) Flamer (1856) Fly (1856) Sepoy (1856) Erne (1856) Spider (1856)...
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Invasion of Java (1811) (section Sepoy revolt)
on the left, and this has endured in Indonesia to this day. The Bengali sepoy regiments stationed in Yogyakarta in 1815, inspired by the Hindu rituals...
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Rebellion of 1857. Dalhousie and the British called this uprising the 'Sepoy mutiny' – Sepoy being the common term for native Indian soldiers in British service...
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HMS Geyser was a Driver-class wooden paddle sloop of the Royal Navy constructed in 1841 and broken up in 1866. Geyser was ordered on 12 March 1840 as...
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CSS Webb (category 1856 ships)
a 655-ton side-wheel steam ram, was originally built in New York City in 1856 as the civilian steamship William H. Webb. She received a Confederate privateer's...
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USS Bloomer (redirect from USS Bloomer (1856))
from trading with other countries. Bloomer—a stern-wheel steamer built in 1856 at New Albany, Indiana—was laid up at the outbreak of the Civil War in the...
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Albacore-class gunboat (1855) (redirect from HMS Albacore (1856))
a class of 98 gunboats built for the Royal Navy in 1855 and 1856 for use in the 1853-1856 Crimean War. The design of the class, by W. H. Walker, was approved...
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especially those from Bombay, Thana, Diu, Dammam and Cochin. The term "sepoy" was used to describe Indian soldiers in European service.[citation needed]...
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HMS Niger was originally slated to be built as a Sampson designed sloop; however, she was ordered as a First-Class sloop with screw propulsion on 20 February...
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attacked him, engaging the French front while a second attack by Madras sepoys outflanked the French line and disrupted it, allowing a successful frontal...
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Ceylon, the ship arrived at Penang in the Straits of Malacca on 22 March 1856. There, Townsend Harris, the recently appointed Consul General to Japan,...
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numerous Royal Navy warships of different sizes such as HMS Queen, Odin, Victor Emmanuel, Sepoy and the Conqueror-class ships of the line. Several of these...
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proceeded against Thingang, at the head of fifty seamen and marines, twelve sepoys, and fifty villagers whom he had prevailed upon to fight against the Burmese...
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the Cove of Cork, Ireland for New York. July 10 – Vellore Mutiny: Indian sepoys mutiny against the East India Company, for the first time. July 12 – Sixteen...
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villagers and townspeople attacked and defeated a foraging company of 60 Indian sepoys in what became known as the Sanyuanli Incident, and Gough ordered a retreat...
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HMS Bristol was the name ship of her class of wooden screw frigates built for the Royal Navy during the 1860s. Bristol was 250 feet (76.2 m) long between...
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contract ferrying passengers across the isthmus through Nicaragua, but in 1856 the Nicaraguan government cancelled the agreement. The ship was then sold...
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Maharajah of the Punjab brought out the Dal Khalsa to march alongside the sepoy troops of the East India Company and the British troops in India with Lord...
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India Company disbands the 34th Regiment of Bengal Native Infantry whose sepoy Mangal Pandey had earlier revolted against the British in the lead up to...
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incidents 4 Jan: HMS Cadmus 14 Jan: HMS Geyser 14 Jan: HMS Terrible 3 Mar: HMS Niger 13 Jul: HMS Eclipse 9 Aug: Ipswich 10 Oct: HMS Sepoy 10 Nov: HMS Bristol 1...
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Sea. Montagu survived the shipwreck of HMS Raleigh in 1857 and afterwards served with the Naval Brigade of HMS Pearl in the Indian Mutiny, being commended...
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projects such as clearing jungles and laying out roads. There were also Indian Sepoy troops garrisoned at Singapore by the British. Despite Singapore's growing...
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Khiladi 1977 1856 Entailing the East India Company's annexation of the kingdom of Oudh (Awadh) from Wajid Ali Shah in 1856 on the eve of the Sepoy Mutiny....
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merchant offices and warehouses. The population in 1856 is estimated to have been 57,000. During the Sepoy Mutiny of 1857, the 21st Native Infantry, then...
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850 HEIC Army sepoys under Keating's overall command. To transport these troops, Rowley called up his own frigate HMS Boadicea and HMS Nereide under Captain...
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Dhayah Fort, the British established a garrison in Ras Al Khaimah of 800 sepoys and artillery, before visiting Jazirat Al Hamra, which was found to be deserted...
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there that they produced this most remarkable picture. The Highlanders, Sepoys, Artillery-men &c. who appear in the scene are men of The Queen's Regiment...
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