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Sepoy Rebellion

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.

Sepoy Rebellion

noun

  1. the Indian Mutiny of 1857–58

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A few numbers later the illustrations began—the clever but terrible ones relating to the Sepoy rebellion.

"Perhaps he saved his master's life in the Sepoy rebellion," she thought.

In an escapade with two other soldiers in the Sepoy rebellion, Dowling had looted the palace of a raja.

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