[PDF] The Indian Mutiny Of 1857 eBook

Author : Gregory Fremont-Barnes
Publisher : Bloomsbury Publishing
Page : 118 pages
File Size : 30,2 MB
Release : 2014-06-06
Category : History
ISBN : 1472810317

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In the mid-19th century India was the focus of Britain's international prestige and commercial power - the most important colony in an empire which extended to every continent on the globe and protected by the seemingly dependable native armies of the East India Company. When, however, in 1857 discontent exploded into open rebellion, Britain was obliged to field its largest army in forty years to defend its 'jewel in the crown'. This book, drawing on the latest sources as well as numerous first-hand accounts, explains why the sepoy armies rose up against the world's leading imperial power, details the major phases of the fighting, including the massacres at Cawnpore and the epic sieges of Delhi and Lucknow, and examines many other aspects of this compelling, at times horrifying, subject.

Author : Saul David
Publisher :
Page : 550 pages
File Size : 34,68 MB
Release : 2002
Category : India
ISBN :

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The Indian Mutiny of 1857 was the bloodiest insurrection in the history of the British Empire. It began with a large-scale uprising by native troops against their colonial masters, and soon developed into general rebellion as thousands of discontented civilians joined in. It is a tale of brutal murder and heroic resistance from which innocents on both sides could not escape. This work covers the story of the Mutiny. It challenges the accepted wisdom that a British victory was inevitable, showing just how close the mutineers came to dealing a fatal blow to the British Raj.

Author : Andrew Mangham
Publisher : Cambridge University Press
Page : 254 pages
File Size : 26,85 MB
Release : 2013-10-17
Category : Literary Criticism
ISBN : 0521760747

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Accessible and comprehensive account of the sensation novel of the nineteenth century.

Author : Sebastian Raj Pender
Publisher : Cambridge University Press
Page : 269 pages
File Size : 39,4 MB
Release : 2022-05-05
Category : History
ISBN : 1316511332

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An innovative study using the commemoration of 1857 as a prism through which to explore 150 years of Indian history.

Author : Julian Spilsbury
Publisher : Weidenfeld & Nicolson
Page : 375 pages
File Size : 17,69 MB
Release : 2008-09-18
Category : History
ISBN : 0297856308

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An epic true story of treachery, revenge and courage The Indian Mutiny is a real page-turner, an epic story with surprising modern parallels. Fomer army officer-turned-TV scriptwriter, Julian Spilsbury is the ideal author to take us back to the desperate summer of 1857 when thousands of Indian soldiers mutinied. They murdered their officers, hunted down the women and children and burned and slaughtered their way to Delhi. The tiny British garrison at Lucknow held out against all odds; the one at Cawnpore surrendered only to be betrayed and massacred. Modern Indian accounts call this 'the first war of liberation', but as Julian Spilsbury reveals, 80 per cent of the so-called 'British' forces were from the sub-continent. Sikhs, Gurkhas and Afghans fought alongside small numbers of British soldiers. Together, they faced terrible odds and won. In the process they created a new army that would play a vital role in the Allied forces in both World Wars. Julian Spilsbury weaves the story together from some of the most vivid eyewitness accounts ever written. From the women and children hiding from blood-crazed mobs, to the epic battles that decided the campaign, to the grisly revenge exacted by the British forces, this is a gripping recreation of the greatest crisis of Empire.

Author : P. J. O. Taylor
Publisher : Oxford University Press, USA
Page : 468 pages
File Size : 33,52 MB
Release : 1996
Category : History
ISBN :

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By Setting Out To Provide That Is Currently Known About Every Event, Incident, Battle, Character, Leader, Anecdote Rumour, Resistance And Military Pertinent To 1857, This Companion Provides General Leaders And Historians The Most Comprehensive Accumulation Of Material By Which To Determine The Precise Nature Of The Indian Indian Mutiny. Dust Jacket Frayed Around The Edges Large Format. Without Dustjacket.