Sepoy Rebellion

American  

noun

1. a revolt of the sepoy troops in British India (1857–59), resulting in the transfer of the administration of India from the East India Company to the crown.

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Sepoy Rebellion British  

noun

1. the Indian Mutiny of 1857–58

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Example Sentences

The Indian Mutiny of 1857, also known as the Sepoy Rebellion, was an attempt to overthrow British rule.

From Textbooks • Dec. 14, 2022

One of the historical heroines of India's freedom movement is the widowed Rani of Jhansi, who joined the 1857-1858 Sepoy Rebellion against British rule.

From Time Magazine Archive

Then suddenly, inconceivably, mutiny sweeps India, as indeed the Sepoy Rebellion did in 1857, and Novelist Farrell takes his Englishmen out of a quaint hunting print and frames them in a painting by Hieronymus Bosch.

From Time Magazine Archive

This was the Sepoy Rebellion or Indian mutiny of 1857.

From Ten Englishmen of the Nineteenth Century by Joy, James Richard

This patriotism, though intense, was never intolerant but rather sympathetic with men of other lands, as appears in "The Pipes at Lucknow", a ballad dealing with a dramatic incident of the Sepoy Rebellion.

From Outlines of English and American Literature : an Introduction to the Chief Writers of England and America, to the Books They Wrote, and to the Times in Which They Lived by Long, William Joseph