By Christopher Wilkinson-Latham
On April twenty fourth, 1855, Colonel Carmichael Smyth held a parade of the 90 skirmishers of the third gentle Cavalry of the Bengal military at Meerut, a few 30 miles from Delhi. The disastrous occasions that sparked a virtually wholesale mutiny of the Honourable East India Company's Bengal local military. Had the resultant rebellion succeeded, it should have threatened the validity of the whole British Empire. because it used to be, the Mutiny witnessed a number of tragic and bloody occasions, from the unique incident in Meerut to the frightening siege of Cawnpore. Christopher Wilikinson-Latham info the heritage of the clash, from its beginnings to final solution.
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