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punishment, invariably led to its subjugation. In this way one province
Kingdom of Oude (1856) the natural boundary of the Himalaya Mountains
company of British merchants had become an Empire, vast and rich beyond
people was improved, and there was little dissatisfaction except among
bitterness. The large army required to hold such an amount of
the Sepoys, as they were called, making goodsoldiers.
[Sidenote: Sepoy Rebellion, 1857.html">1857-1858.]
In 1857 the King of the Oude and some of the native princes cunningly
circumstances afforded a singular opportunity for carrying out their
which animal grease was used. The Sepoys were told this was a deep-laid
eternally lost by defiling his lips with the fat of swine, and the
tried to ruin them not alone in this world, but in the next.html">next.
[Sidenote: Massacre at Cawnpore.]
Thrilled with horror, terror-stricken, the dusky soldiers were
stations; not only officers, but Europeans, were slaughtered without
the garrison capitulated to Nana Sahib and his Sepoys. The officers
number, were shut up in a large apartment which had been used by the
known, five men with sabres, in the twilight, were seen to enter the
Three times a hacked and a blunted sabre was passed out of a window in
ceased and all was still. The next morning a mass of mutilated remains
Sepoys were conquered and a policy of merciless retribution followed.
In that well at Cawnpore was forever buried sympathy for the mutinous
fired from the cannon's mouth. From that moment it was the cause of.
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