Disarmament of the 26th Indian regiment at Barrackpore
January 1, 1857
Mirza Firuz Shah
Military
Bahadur Shah II 1837–1857
Disarmament of the 26th Indian regiment at Barrackpore
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Disarmament of the 26th Indian regiment at Barrackpore, India. During the Indian Mutiny of 1857. Began as mutiny of sepoys (Indian soldiers of the British East India Company's army on 10 May 1857, in the town of Meerut. Also known as 1857 War of Independence and India 's First War of Independence.
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Bunzeena Hameed
Under the banner of the Shahzada the number of the rebels swelled by leaps and bounds to 20,000 men within two months. Page No: 143, Footnote No: 28
Archive: H M Durand, Sir Henry Durand — Life and Letters, p 225 (According to Forest History of the Indian Mutiny, Vol III, p 121, the rebel force rose to 17 or 18 thousand in a month's time