company and known Broadway actor named James Young. Young's previous wife had been the songwriter/lyricist Rida Johnson Young. After sending a photograph...
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Indian Rebellion of 1857 (redirect from The Sepoy Rebellion)
power on behalf of the British Crown. The rebellion began on 10 May 1857 in the form of a mutiny of sepoys of the company's army in the garrison town of...
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Varghese, Mukund's wife Rahul Bose as Colonel Amit Singh Dabas Bhuvan Arora as Sepoy Vikram Singh Haethakshi V. as Arsheya "Arshu" Lallu as Sepoy Ravi Shankar...
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Vellore Mutiny (redirect from 1806 Sepoy Mutiny)
The Vellore mutiny, or Vellore Revolution, occurred on 10 July 1806 and was the first instance of a large-scale and violent mutiny by Indian sepoys against...
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Mukund Varadarajan (category Recipients of the Ashoka Chakra (military decoration))
Along with Sepoy Vikram Singh, Mukund crawled through the orchard in front of the house, avoiding gunfire. After successfully crossing the orchard, they...
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subcontinent is under the control of the British East India Company. On 7 April, in Barrackpore in West Bengal, Mangal Pandey (Aamir Khan), a sepoy (soldier of...
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Kumar Akash Thosar as Sepoy Kishan Yadav Mahie Gill as Ms. Shagun Singh, wife of Suraj Singh, inspired by Shaitan Singh's wife Ms. Shagun Kanwar Arif...
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Bahadur Shah Zafar (category Emperors of the Mughal Empire)
yielded to the demands of the sepoys when he was told that they would not be able to win against the East India Company without him. On 16 May, sepoys and palace...
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21 Sarfarosh – Saragarhi 1897 (category Television series set in the 1890s)
as Sohni, Ishar Singh's wife Kamaljeet Rana as Sepoy Sunder Singh Rahul Ranaa as Sepoy Kala singh Jashan Singh Kohli as Sepoy Hira Singh, who has special...
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Ispah rebellion (redirect from Persian Sepoy Rebellion)
The term Ispah might derive from the Persian word "سپاه" (sepâh), meaning "army" or "Sepoy". Thus, the rebellion is also known as the Persian Sepoy rebellion...
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Blowing from a gun (section Problems with the method)
rebels as well as for Indian sepoys who were found guilty of desertion. Using the methods previously practised by the Mughals, the British began implementing...
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Ranbir Singh of Jammu and Kashmir (category Companions of the Order of the Indian Empire)
and Kashmir in August 1830. He was the third son of Maharaja Gulab Singh. His mother Rakwal Maharani was the first wife of Gulab Singh. Ranbir Singh was...
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Mangal Pandey (category Revolutionaries of the Indian Rebellion of 1857)
preacher. The wife of Captain William Halliday of the 56th B.N.I. had the Bible printed in Urdu and Hindi and distributed among the sepoys, thus raising...
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Ali Haidar (VC) (category Indian World War II recipients of the Victoria Cross)
which he was awarded the Victoria Cross. He was 31 years old, and a Sepoy in the 6th battalion 13th Frontier Force Rifles, in the British Indian Army during...
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William Brydon (category Companions of the Order of the Bath)
day. In addition a small number of Indian sepoys reached Jalalabad on foot over the subsequent weeks. One sepoy, havildar Sita Ram, escaped from Afghanistan...
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Battle of Plassey (category Battles of the Seven Years' War)
Regiment, one of the Bengal Artillery and one of the Bombay Regiment. Of the losses by the sepoys, four Madras and nine Bengal sepoys were killed while...
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grenadiers hidden in the bush and the main sepoy line laid out on a reverse slope. Despite a charge by the mounted brigands, the concentrated British...
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George Anson (British Army officer, born 1797) (category Companions of the Order of the Bath)
officer and Whig politician from the Anson family. Anson was the second son of Thomas Anson, 1st Viscount Anson, and his wife Lady Anne Margaret Coke, daughter...
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Wee Toon Boon (category Members of the Parliament of Singapore)
Singaporean politician and Member of Parliament for Sepoy Lines Constituency from 1965 to 1976. A member of the People's Action Party, he also served as Minister...
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stolen ammunition to the armory at Seringapatam. While Sharpe and his men rest, a company of East India Company sepoys arrive under the command of Lieutenant...
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Vellore Fort (section Under the Marathas (1678–1707))
his sons, daughters, wife and mother (who was the wife of Hyder Ali), was detained in the fort. After the 1806 Sepoy Mutiny, the British transferred Tipu's...
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Co., and is based on the life of Havildar Alum Bheg, a sepoy of the 46th Regiment of the Bengal Native Infantry, who following the Indian Rebellion of...
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Khusro Bagh (category 1620s establishments in the Mughal Empire)
National Importance. It includes the four tombs: Shah Begum (born Manbhawati Bai) (d. 1604), Jahangir's wife, and the daughter of Raja Bhagwant Das and...
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Manikandan from joining the troops at the war front earlier. Mammootty as Lieutenant Colonel Ravi Varma Thampuran / Kelan Dileep as Sepoy E. Manikandan Nair...
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Siege of Cawnpore (category Wikipedia articles incorporating a citation from the 1911 Encyclopaedia Britannica with Wikisource reference)
enraged the British rank-and-file against the sepoy rebels and inspired the war cry "Remember Cawnpore!". Cawnpore was an important garrison town for the East...
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Birjis Qadr (category Revolutionaries of the Indian Rebellion of 1857)
the British on the pretext of mis-governance, and was exiled to Metiabruz, a neighbourhood of Calcutta. In 1857, the Sepoy Mutiny erupted against the...
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Bangladesh (redirect from The People's Republic of Bangladesh)
dead at home, a day after his wife's demise". The Times of India. 14 September 2023. ISSN 0971-8257. Archived from the original on 25 September 2023....
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Margaret Frances Wheeler (category British people of the Indian Rebellion of 1857)
as wife of Ali Khan, who "was kind to her". Her ultimate fate was never confirmed. Margaret Frances Wheeler was born to Hugh Wheeler and his wife Frances...
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1842 retreat from Kabul (category Wikipedia articles incorporating a citation from the ODNB)
16,000 people from the column commanded by Elphinstone, only one European (Assistant Surgeon William Brydon) and a few Indian sepoys reached Jalalabad...
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bunch of gangsters. The child is named Amaran by the grateful Govindan and is brought up by him. After Govindan's demise, his wife raises Amaran, who grows...
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