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    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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    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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  • 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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    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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