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A sepoy was an Indian soldier in the armies of various states and European trading companies in the Indian subcontinent and then, from the second half of the 19th century, in the British Indian Army. Recruited from many different population...

The 1857-8 Sepoy Mutiny (aka Sepoy Rebellion, Indian Mutiny, The Uprising or First Indian War of Independence) was a failed rebellion against the rule of the British East India Company (EIC) in India. Initially a mutiny of the Indian soldiers...

A mid-19th-century illustration showing the typical uniform of a sepoy in the East India Company army - red jacket, shorts, and a variation on the traditional turban.

A map illustrating the scope and geopolitical context of the Sepoy Mutiny (from Persian sepāhī, for soldier) of 1857 in India. Originating in the state of Uttar Pradesh, the mutiny soon escalated from a revolt of the East India Company's...

A detail from the c. 1858 title page of a collection of lithographs The Campaign in India 1857-58 showing Bengal sepoy infantry of the British East India Company. (National Army Museum, London)

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An 1850s illustration showing British soldiers looting in Luknow during the Sepoy Mutiny (1857-8), an activity conducted by both sides during the rebellion.

An 1839 illustration showing a trooper and sepoy (Indian recruit) of the East India Company army. 27th Regiment of Madras Native Infantry. (British Library, London)

An early-20th-century painting by Major A.C. Lovett of a sepoy in the British Indian Army. (From The Armies of India, 1911)

A mid-19th century sepoy musketeer of the Mughal Empire (1526-1857).