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Sepoy Rebellion
Book article from: World Encyclopedia
Sepoy Rebellion Alternative name for the Indian Mutiny
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Dion Boucicault
Encyclopedia entry from: Encyclopedia of World Biography
...1857) was based on the financial panics of 1837 and 1857. Jessie Brown or The Relief of Lucknow (1858) dramatized the Sepoy mutiny in India. Produced shortly before the Civil War, The Octoroon (1859) portrayed the love of a slave-holder for his...
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Vellore
Book article from: The Columbia Encyclopedia, Sixth Edition
...cent. Vellore was the stronghold of the Indian leaders Haidar Ali and his son Tippoo Sahib , and it was the site of a brief sepoy uprising against the British in 1806. An ancient fort, a 14th-century temple of the Hindu god Shiva, and a Christian medical...
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Following the Equator
Book article from: The Oxford Companion to American Literature
...aborigines, early settlers, and local animals. Although there are witty interludes, vivid accounts such as the one of the Sepoy Mutiny, and satirical disquisitions on the Boer War and imperialistic morality, the book has little of the inspiration that...
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Bentinck, Lord William
Book article from: The Oxford Companion to British History
...the campaigns of 1799 and 1801. In 1803 he became governor of Madras but was recalled after being held responsible for the sepoy mutiny at Velore in July 1806. He subsequently saw action in the Mediterranean, commanding the British forces in Sicily...
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Colin Campbell
Encyclopedia entry from: Encyclopedia of World Biography
...military hero in his homeland. Restored British Dominance in Northern India During 1857, Campbell was ordered to repress the Sepoy Mutiny in India. While he was criticized by some of his peers for being too cautious and was referred to as "Sir Crawling...
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Communication
Encyclopedia entry from: Encyclopedia of the Modern Middle East and North Africa
...and Khedive Isma ʿ il (1863 – 1879), telegraph lines were extended to all inhabited parts of Egypt. The Sepoy Mutiny (1857), news of which took forty days to reach London, made Britain aware of its need for telegraphic communication...
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Indian Mutiny
Book article from: The Columbia Encyclopedia, Sixth Edition
...British East India Company but developed into a widespread uprising against British rule in India. It is also known as the Sepoy Rebellion, sepoys being the native soldiers. Causes of the Mutiny In the years just prior to the mutiny many factors combined...
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Jessie Brown; or, the Relief of Lucknow
Book article from: The Oxford Companion to American Theatre
...a drama by Dion Boucicault . [ Wallack's Theatre , 42 perf.] Led by the treacherous Nena Sahib (Boucicault), the Sepoy Rebellion has succeeded in trapping a garrison of European troops at Lucknow. As the days move on, the situation seems more...
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Lowell, Robert Traill Spence
Book article from: The Oxford Companion to American Literature
...headmaster of St. Mark's, and A Story or Two from an Old Dutch Town (1878) is set in Schenectady, where he taught at Union College. The best known of his Poems (1864) is The Relief of Lucknow , about the Sepoy rebellion in Lahore (1857).
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