Anagram & Information om | Engelska ordet SEPOY

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• The term sepoy came into common use in the forces of the British East India Company in the eighteenth century, where it was one of a number of names, such as peons, gentoos, mestees and topasses, used for various categories of native soldier.
• He was 25 years old, and a sepoy in the 28th Punjabis, Indian Army during the Waziristan Campaign when, on 10 April 1921, near Haidari Kach he undertook the actions which led his senior officer, Captain Bernard Oddie, to recommend him for the award of a VC.
• For gallant conduct on 16 and 17 November 1857, at the storming of the Secundra Bagh at Lucknow, in saving the life of Captain Irby, warding off with his firelock a tulwar cut made at his head by a sepoy, and in going out under a heavy fire to help two wounded men.
• The predecessors to the contemporary Army of India were many: the sepoy regiments, native cavalry, irregular horse and Indian sapper and miner companies raised by the three British presidencies.
• Both designations of Sepoy Plain and Sepoy Lines refer to the public shooting of 47 sepoys at the wall of Outram Prison in 1915.
• During this event the troops from the Bengal Native Infantry led by sepoy Mangal Pandey mutinied against the British.
• By coincidence, when the regiments paraded early in the morning of 11 May, their officers read out to them the general order announcing the execution of sepoy Mangal Pandey, who had attempted to start a rebellion near Barrackpore earlier in the year, and the disbandment of his regiment, the 34th Bengal Native Infantry.
• The pay of the sepoy was relatively low and after Awadh and the Punjab were annexed, the soldiers no longer received extra pay (batta or bhatta) if posted there, because this was no longer considered "foreign service".

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