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Indian Mutiny

NOUN
  1. discontent with British administration in India led to numerous mutinies in 1857 and 1858; the revolt was put down after several battles and sieges (notably the siege at Lucknow)

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  • War, the Indian Mutiny, and the war with China had kept England in a continual state of martial fever, and the agitation for electoral reform was beginning. William of Germany
  • The story of the rise and fall of the Indian Mutiny is the story of the life of Roberts -- in so far as the rise is concerned. Boys' Book of Famous Soldiers
  • Larry said it didn't sound like practice, but more like the Indian Mutiny. My Family and Other Animals
  • The present volume deals with Flashman's adventures in the Indian Mutiny, where he witnessed many of the dramatic moments of that terrible struggle, and encountered numerous Victorian celebrities — monarchs, statesmen, and generals among them. Flashman In The Great Game
  • He was a good writer with a fine descriptive gift, and can give a more vivid and convincing picture of a period and its people than most academic historians; as an example I would cite his In Times of Peril, in which he brought day-to-day experience of the Indian Mutiny to life for his young readers — and not a few older ones. Flashman on the March
  • There was Captain Gleed's traveling desk, complete with ugly gash where he'd used it as a shield during the Indian Mutiny and which accounted for him surviving that spirited bid to topple the Raj. Alfred Hitchcock's Mystery Magazine
  • She left celebrated journals of her service in the Crimea and the Indian Mutiny. Flash For Freedom
  • The present volume deals with Flashman's adventures in the Indian Mutiny, where he witnessed many of the drama-tic moments of that terrible struggle, and encountered numerous Victorian celebrities - monarchs, statesmen, and generals among them. Fiancée
  • During the Indian Mutiny of 1857 he sided with the mutineers in Delhi, and for this crime he was tried by the British and exiled to Rangoon, where he died.
  • The so-called "Indian Mutiny" of 1857 was a war of British oppression. The Brits were an occupying colonial power. The local people owed them nothing.
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