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Indian Mutiny

AKA

Sepoy Mutiny or First War of Independence

Image right - By Henry Martens - National Army Museum via Attribution Wiki Commons 7th Hussars, charging a body of the Mutineer's Cavalry, Alambagh, Lucknow

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Date: 10 May 1857

Location: India

Belligerents:

United Kingdom of Great Britain and Ireland

East India Company

  • Rajputana Agency
  • Patiala
  • Kapurthala
  • Rampur
  • Jodhpur
  • Nabha
  • Kingdom of Nepal
  • Losses: 6000 killed, including civilians

India

  • Sepoy mutineers
  • Mughal Empire
  • Oudh
  • Forces of Rani Lakshmibai of Jhansi
  • Forces of Nana Sahib Peshwa II
  • Jagdishpur
  • Gwalior factions
  • Jodhpur factions
  • Banda
  • Various other Rajas, Nawabs, Zamindars, Thakurs, Chaudharys, Taluqdars, Sardars, and chieftains
  • Losses: Based on a rough comparison of the sketchy pre-1857 regional demographic data and the first 1871 Census of India, probably 800,000 Indians were killed, and very likely more, both in the rebellion and in the famines and epidemics of disease that were caused as a result in its immediate aftermath [Peers, Douglas M. (2013), India Under Colonial Rule: 1700–1885, Routledge, ISBN 978-1-317-88286-2]

The Indian Rebellion of 1857 cost the lives of at least 13,000 British and allied soldiers, 40,000 mutineers, and an untold number of British and Indian civilians.

Commanders and leaders

England

India

See Below for an extended list.

Causes

A major uprising in India in 1857–58 against the rule of the British East India Company, which functioned as a sovereign power on behalf of the British Crown. It occurred as the result of an accumulation of factors over time, rather than any single event. Indian soldiers rose up against their British commanders. They were joined by native rulers and thousands of ordinary people in a struggle that threatened to destroy British colonial power on the Indian subcontinent.

Overview

The overview is well covered elsewhere - please refer to these links for full details.
See

Result

British victory

  • Suppression of revolt
  • Formal end of the Mughal Empire
  • End of Company rule in India
  • Transfer of rule to the British Crown

Casualties www.geni.com/media/proxy?media_id=6000000196658287846&size=large

Identified on Geni

Lieutenant Burnett Ashburner
Lieutenant Frederick John Salmon Bagshaw (1826-1857)
Major John Sherbrooke Banks 1811-21 July 1857 - Lucknow
Lieutenant Colonel Charles Grant Belcher (1811-1858)
Captain Robert Bogle (1826-1857) Lucknow
Brigadier Frederick Brind
Major Charles Aeneas Burton (1812-1857)
Major Hon. Robert Barlow Palmer Byng (1816- 18 Dec 1857)
Fitzherbewrt Dacre Lucas (1823-1857)
Lorenz Geganwart
Major Henry John Guise (1817-1857)
John Rivaz MonKton and his Wife - Rose Catherine Taylor Murdered in the mutiny
Alexander William Murray (1836-1857)
Everard Aloysius Lisle Phillipps
Arthur Rose d 1958

Casualties www.geni.com/media/proxy?media_id=6000000196658287846&size=large

NOT on Geni

Aftermath

The East India Company was abolished in favour of the direct rule of India by the British government. A policy of consultation with Indians was introduced. The Legislative Council of 1853 had contained only Europeans and had behaved as a full-fledged parliament. The new council of 1861 was given an Indian-nominated element.

The effect of the mutiny on the people of India themselves. Traditional society had made its protest against the incoming alien influences, and it had failed. The princes and other natural leaders had either held aloof from the mutiny or had proved, for the most part, incompetent. From this time all serious hope of a revival of the past or an exclusion of the West diminished. The traditional structure of Indian society began to break down and was eventually superseded by a Westernised class system, from which emerged a strong middle class with a heightened sense of Indian nationalism.

Key Events

Following the outbreak of the Indian Mutiny at Meerut in May 1857, uprisings occurred across northern and central India. The main centres of revolt were

* Delhi,

The city of Delhi became the centre of the uprising. It was the seat of Bahadur Shah Zafar, the old and largely powerless Mughal Emperor. The mutineers from Meerut had immediately gone there to ask for his support and leadership, which he reluctantly gave.

Delhi occupied a key strategic position between Calcutta and the new territories of the Punjab. Its recapture was a priority for the British.

* Cawnpore,

Cawnpore was a major crossing point on the River Ganges, and an important junction, where the Grand Trunk Road and the road from Jhansi to Lucknow crossed. In June 1857 the sepoys there rebelled and laid siege to Major-General Sir Hugh Wheeler’s garrison.

Wheeler had retreated to an entrenchment outside the city. Nana Sahib, a local ruler who had suffered from the British seizure of his estate, led the rebels. For nearly three weeks, under constant fire and a burning sun, 1,000 Britons awaited rescue.

* Lucknow,

Lucknow was the capital of Oudh, a state annexed the year before in a move that caused great resentment. The sepoys rebelled on 30 May 1857 and this was followed by riots in the city.

* Jhansi

Opposition to British control of central India centred on Jhansi, where Rani Lakshmi Bai opposed the annexation of her state. In June 1857 the Bengal Army regiments stationed in central India mutinied. The Gwalior Contingent, a force in the service of the pro-British Maharajah Sindia, joined them.

On 5 June, British officers, civilians and Indian servants who were sheltering in Jhansi fort, were killed by the Rani’s men. The rebels had offered to spare their lives if they surrendered, and it was believed that the Rani had guaranteed their safety.

* Gwalior.

The rebel defeat in Gwalior effectively ended the rising. The British quickly took steps to prevent any further unrest.

Battles

Battle of Agra

The Battle of Agra - comparatively minor but decisive action during the Indian Rebellion of 1857. Indian rebels attacked a column of British troops which had relieved a garrison at Agra. Although they surprised the column, they were defeated and dispersed. This allowed the British to establish communications across all of Northern India, and to concentrate troops for the vital Relief of Lucknow.

Battle of Aong

The Battle of Aong took place on July 15, 1857 between the East India Company forces and Nana Sahib's forces. The East India Company forces under the command of General Sir Henry Havelock were advancing to Kanpur, which had been besieged by Nana Sahib, supported by the rebel Company sepoys. Nana Sahib had earlier sent an army to check the advance of General Havelock to Kanpur, but it was defeated by Havelock's forces at Fatehpur on July 12. Nana Sahib then sent another force under the command of his brother, Bala Rao. On July 15, the British forces under General Havelock defeated Bala Rao's army in the Battle of Aong, just outside the Aong village. During the battle, Havelock was able to capture some of the rebel soldiers, who informed him that there was an army of 5,000 rebel soldiers with eight artillery pieces further up the road. This enabled Havelock to decide his further strategy.

Battle of Badli-ki-Serai

The Battle of Badli-ki-Serai was fought early in the rebellion. A British and Gurkha force defeated a force of sepoys who had rebelled against the British East India Company. The British victory allowed them to besiege and ultimately capture Delhi.

Battle of Chinhat

The Battle of Chinhat was fought on the morning of June 30, 1857, between British forces and Indian rebels, at Ismailganj, near Chinhat, Oude. The British were led by The Chief Commissioner of Oude, Brigadier General Sir Henry Lawrence KCB. The insurgent force, which consisted of mutineers from the East India Company's army and retainers of local landowners, was led by Barkat Ahmad, a mutineer officer of the Company's army.

Battle of Najafgarh

The Battle of Najafgarh was a subsidiary event of the Siege of Delhi. A large Indian force sortied from Delhi, intending to attack the rear of the British force besieging the city. A detachment from the besiegers marched to intercept them, and defeated them while they were disordered by difficult terrain and by quarrels among their commanders.

Capture of Lucknow

The British recaptured the city of Lucknow which they had abandoned in the previous winter after the relief of a besieged garrison in the Residency, and destroyed the organised resistance by the rebels in the Kingdom of Awadh.

Central India Campaign

The Central India Campaign was one of the last series of actions in the Indian rebellion of 1857,. A small British and Indian Army overcame a disunited collection of states in a single rapid campaign, although determined rebels continued a guerrilla campaign until the spring of 1859.

Kintoor

Kintoor or Kintur is a village distant 10 miles north-east of Badosarai in Barabanki district famous for battle of Kintoor of 1858 during Indian Mutiny.

Second Battle of Cawnpore

The Second Battle of Cawnpore was a decisive battle as it thwarted the rebels' last chance to regain the initiative and recapture the cities of Kanpur and Lucknow.

Siege of Cawnpore

The Siege of Cawnpore was a key episode - he besieged Company forces and civilians in Cawnpore were unprepared for an extended siege and surrendered to rebel forces under Nana Sahib, in return for a safe passage to Allahabad. Their evacuation from Cawnpore turned into a massacre, and most of them were killed. As an East India Company rescue force from Allahabad approached Cawnpore; in what came to be known as the Bibighar Massacre, 120 British women and children captured by the Sepoy forces were killed and dismembered with meat cleavers, and their remains being thrown down a nearby well in an attempt to hide the evidence. Following the recapture of Cawnpore and the discovery of the massacre, the outraged Company forces engaged in widespread retaliation against the captured rebel soldiers and local civilians. The murders greatly embittered the British rank-and-file against the Sepoy rebels and inspired the war cry "Remember Cawnpore!".

Siege of Delhi

The Siege of Delhi was one of the decisive conflicts of the Indian rebellion of 1857. The rebellion against the authority of the British East India Company was widespread through much of Northern India, but essentially it was sparked by the mass uprising by the sepoys of the units of the Army which the company had itself raised in its Bengal Presidency. Seeking a symbol around which to rally, the first sepoys to rebel sought to reinstate the power of the Mughal Empire, which had ruled much of India during the previous centuries. Lacking overall direction, many who subsequently rebelled also flocked to Delhi. This made the siege decisive because 1) numbers of rebels were committed to the defence of a single fixed point, perhaps to the detriment of their prospects elsewhere, and defeat at Delhi was thus a very major military setback. 2) the British recapture of Delhi and the refusal of the aged Mughal Emperor Bahadur Shah II to continue the struggle, deprived the rebellion of much of its national character.

Siege of Lucknow

The Siege of Lucknow was the prolonged defence of the Residency within the city of Lucknow during the Indian Rebellion of 1857. After two successive relief attempts had reached the city, the defenders and civilians were evacuated from the Residency, which was then abandoned.

Lucknow

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Image Above The Relief of Lucknow, 1857 by Thomas Jones Barker - Public domain photograph of 19th-century British painting, free to use, no copyright restrictions image - Picryl description

The Relief of Lucknow consisted of two attempts by the British to rescue Brigadier General Sir Henry Lawrence and a contingent of Indian troops, along with several hundred civilians, approximately 3000 in total), from the The Residency at the centre of Lucknow where they had been under seige for 5 months.

Brigadier General Sir Henry Lawrence had been forced to retreat into the Residency (the central fortress of Lucknow). The first attempt was on 25th Sept 1857 when a force commanded by Major General Sir Henry Havelock. Because he had lost so many troops on the way Havelock decided it was too risky to evacuate and so joined the garrison and waited for a second relief attempt.

On 16th November much larger force led by Field Marshall Sir Colin Campbell approached the residency, storming the Secundra Bagh which was used as one of many strongholds of sepoy mutineers during their siege of the Residency and which blocked the route. The residency was evacuated on 22nd November. The Residency still has within its walls, the graves of around 2000 British soldiers who died in the Revolt.

It is said that more Victoria Crosses were awarded for that single day than ever, many for the assault on the Sikandar Bagh. (Marked ❖ or Lucknow below)

Notable connections

Indian Mutiny Victoria Cross recipients

Name Unit Date of action Place of action

  • Henry Addison 43rd Regiment of Foot 2 January 1859 Kurrereah, India
  • Colonel Frederick Aikman (1828 - 1888 4th Bengal Native Infantry 1 March 1858 Amethi, India
  • Colonel Robert Hope Moncrieff Aitken (1826-1887) 13th Bengal Native Infantry 30 June 1857 to 22 November 1857 Lucknow, India
  • Charles Anderson 2nd Dragoon Guards 8 October 1858 Sundeela Oudh, India
  • Lieutenant Colonel Augustus Anson VC (1835-1877) 84th Regiment of Foot 28 September 1857, 16 November 1857 Bolandshahr, India Lucknow, India
  • Major General and Lewa Pasha Charles George Baker (1830-1906) Bengal Military Police Battalion 27 September 1858 Suhejnee, Near Peroo, India
  • Valentine Bambrick 60th Rifles 6 May 1858 Bareilly, India
  • William Bankes 7th Queen's Own Hussars 19 March 1858 Lucknow, India Bankes was awarded the VC when the award criteria for the medal was amended to allow posthumous awards.
  • General James Blair VC (1828-1905) 2nd Bombay Light Cavalry 12 August 1857, 23 October 1857 Neemuch, India Jeerum, India ( Wiki claims that he was a Cousin of Robert Blair below, but I have not found the connection.CJB. One Ancestry tree claims they were brothers)
  • Captain Robert Blair VC (1834-1859 2nd Dragoon Guards 28 September 1857 Bolandshahr, India
  • Andrew Bogle 78th Regiment of Foot 29 July 1857 Oonao, India
  • Abraham Boulger 84th Regiment of Foot 12 July 1857 to 25 September 1857[11] Lucknow, India
  • William Bradshaw 90th Regiment of Foot 26 September 1857 Lucknow, India
  • Joseph Brennan Royal Regiment of Artillery 3 April 1858 Jhansi, India
  • Colonel Francis David Millet Brown (1837 - 1895) 1st Bengal European Fusiliers 16 November 1857 Narnoul, India ❖
  • Sam Browne 46th Bengal Native Infantry 31 August 1858 Seerporah, India
  • John Buckley Commissariat Department 11 May 1857 Delhi, India
  • Thomas Butler 1st Bengal European Fusiliers 9 March 1858 Lucknow, India
  • James Byrne 86th Regiment of Foot 3 April 1858 Jhansi, India
  • Thomas Cadell 2nd Bengal European Fusiliers 12 June 1857 Delhi, India
  • William Cafe 56th Bengal Native Infantry 15 April 1858 Fort Ruhya, India
  • Colonel Aylmer Spicer Cameron 72nd Regiment of Foot 30 March 1858 Kotah, India
  • Patrick Carlin 13th Regiment of Foot 6 April 1858 Azumgurh, India
  • James Champion 8th King's Royal Irish Hussars 8 September 1858 Beejapore, India
  • George Chicken Naval Brigade 27 September 1858 Suhejnee, Near Peroo, India
  • Major Herbert Mackworth Clogstoun (1820-1862) 19th Madras Native Infantry 15 January 1859 Chichumbah, India
  • Hugh Cochrane 86th Regiment of Foot 1 April 1858 Jhansi, India
  • William Connolly Bengal Horse Artillery 7 July 1857 Jhelum, India
  • Walter Cook 42nd Regiment of Foot 15 January 1859 Maylah Ghat, India
  • Cornelius Coughlan 75th Regiment of Foot 8 June 1857 Delhi, India
  • Lieutenant Colonel Joseph Petrus Hendrik Crowe (1826-1876) 78th Regiment of Foot 12 August 1857 Boursekee Chowkee, India
  • Colonel William George Cubitt VC DSO (1835-1903) 13th Bengal Native Infantry 30 June 1857 Chinhut, India
  • John Daunt 11th Bengal Native Infantry 2 October 1857 Ghota Behar, India
  • James Davis 42nd Regiment of Foot 15 April 1858 Fort Ruhya, India
  • Denis Dempsey 10th Regiment of Foot 12 August 1857, 14 March 1858 Lucknow, India
  • Bernard Diamond Bengal Horse Artillery 28 September 1857 Bolandshahr, India
  • John Divane 60th Rifles 10 September 1857 Delhi, India
  • Patrick Donohoe 9th Queen's Royal Lancers 28 September 1857 Bolandshahr, India
  • William Dowling 32nd Regiment of Foot 4 July 1857, 27 September 1857 Lucknow, India
  • Thomas Duffy (1806-1868 1st Madras European Fusiliers 26 September 1857 Lucknow, India
  • John Dunlay 93rd Regiment of Foot 16 November 1857 Lucknow, India ❖
  • Denis Dynon 53rd Regiment of Foot 2 October 1857 Ghota Behar, India
  • Francis Farquharson 42nd Regiment of Foot 9 March 1858 Lucknow, India
  • Alfred Ffrench 53rd Regiment of Foot 16 November 1857 Lucknow, India ❖
  • Richard Fitzgerald Bengal Horse Artillery 28 September 1857 Bolandshahr, India
  • Thomas Flinn 64th Regiment of Foot 28 November 1857 Cawnpore, India
  • George Forrest Bengal Veterans Establishment 11 May 1857 Delhi, India
  • Lieutent General sir Charles Crauford Fraser (1829-1895) 7th Queen's Own Hussars 31 December 1858 River Raptee, India
  • John Freeman 9th Queen's Royal Lancers 10 October 1857 Agra, India
  • William Gardner 42nd Regiment of Foot 5 May 1858 Bareilly, India
  • Stephen Garvin 60th Rifles 23 June 1857 Delhi, India
  • Peter Gill Loodiana Regiment 4 June 1857 Benares, India
  • William Goat 9th Queen's Royal Lancers 6 March 1858 Lucknow, India
  • Charles Goodfellow Bombay Engineers 6 October 1859 Kathiawar, India
  • Henry Gore-Browne 32nd Regiment of Foot 21 August 1857 Lucknow, India
  • General Sir Charles John Stanley Gough (1832-1912) 5th Bengal European Cavalry 15 August 1857, 18 August 1857, 27 January 1858, 3 February 1858[12] Khurkowdah, India, Shumshabad, India Meangunge, India
  • General Sir Hugh Henry Gough (1833-1909) 1st Bengal European Light Cavalry 12 November 1857, * 25 February 1858 Alumbagh, India * Jellalabad, India
  • Patrick Graham 90th Regiment of Foot 17 November 1857 Lucknow, India
  • Peter Grant 93rd Regiment of Foot 16 November 1857 Lucknow, India ❖
  • Robert Grant 5th Regiment of Foot 24 September 1857 Alumbagh, India
  • Patrick Green 75th Regiment of Foot 11 September 1857 Delhi, India
  • John Guise 90th Regiment of Foot 16 November 1857 Lucknow, India ❖
  • Thomas Hackett 23rd Regiment of Foot 18 November 1857 Lucknow, India
  • William Hall Naval Brigade 16 November 1857 Lucknow, India ❖
  • Thomas Hancock 9th Queen's Royal Lancers 19 June 1857 Delhi, India
  • Hastings Harington Bengal Horse Artillery 14 November 1857 to 22 November 1857 Lucknow, India
  • John Harrison Naval Brigade 16 November 1857 Lucknow, India ❖
  • Henry Hartigan 9th Queen's Royal Lancers 8 June 1857 10 October 1857[13] Delhi, India Agra, India
  • Lieutenant General Sir Henry Marshman Havelock-Allan, 1st Baronet (1830-1897) 10th Regiment of Foot 16 July 1857 Cawnpore, India
  • David Hawkes Rifle Brigade 11 March 1858 Lucknow, India
  • Robert Hawthorne 52nd Regiment of Foot 14 September 1857 Delhi, India
  • Lieutenant Alfred Spencer Heathcote (1832-1912) 60th Rifles June to September 1857 Delhi, India
  • Major Clement Walker-Heneage (1831-1901 8th King's Royal Irish Hussars 17 June 1858 Gwalior, India
  • Samuel Hill 90th Regiment of Foot 16 November 1857 Lucknow, India ❖
  • Lieutenst General Sir James Hills Johnes (1833-1919) Bengal Horse Artillery 9 July 1857 Delhi, India
  • George Hollis 8th King's Royal Irish Hussars 17 June 1858 Gwalior, India
  • James Hollowell 78th Regiment of Foot 26 September 1857 Lucknow, India
  • Joel Holmes 84th Regiment of Foot 25 September 1857 Lucknow, India
  • Surgeon General Anthony Dickson Home 1826-1914 90th Regiment of Foot 26 September 1857 Lucknow, India
  • Duncan Home Bengal Sappers and Miners 14 September 1857 Delhi, India
  • Lieutenant General James John Macleod Innes Bengal Sappers and Miners 23 February 1858 Sultanpore, India
  • Charles Irwin 53rd Regiment of Foot 16 November 1857 Lucknow, India ❖
  • Hanson Jarrett 26th Bengal Native Infantry 14 October 1858 Baroun, India
  • Joseph Jee 78th Regiment of Foot 25 September 1857 Lucknow, India
  • Edward Jennings Bengal Horse Artillery 14 November 1857 to 22 November 1857 Lucknow, India
  • Henry Jerome 86th Regiment of Foot 3 April 1858 Jhansi, India
  • Alfred Jones 9th Queen's Royal Lancers 8 June 1857 Delhi, India
  • Thomas Kavanagh Bengal Civil Service 9 November 1857 Lucknow, India
  • Richard Keatinge Bombay Artillery 17 March 1858 Chundairee, India
  • Robert Kells 9th Queen's Royal Lancers 28 September 1857 Bolandshahr, India
  • James Kenny 53rd Regiment of Foot 16 November 1857 Lucknow, India ❖
  • William Kerr 24th Bombay Native Infantry 10 July 1857 Kolapore, India
  • John Kirk 10th Regiment of Foot 4 June 1857 Benares, India
  • George Lambert 84th Regiment of Foot 29 June 1857, 16 August 1857, 25 September 1857 Oonao, India Bithoor, India Lucknow, India
  • Thomas Laughnan Bengal Horse Artillery 14 November 1857 to November 1857 Lucknow, India
  • Samuel Lawrence 32nd Regiment of Foot 7 July 1857, 26 September 1857 Lucknow, India
  • James Leith 14th Light Dragoons 1 April 1858 Betwa, India
  • Lieutenant General Harry Hammon Lyster (1830-1922) 72nd Bengal Native Infantry 23 May 1858 Calpee, India
  • David MacKay 93rd Regiment of Foot 16 November 1857 Lucknow, India ❖
  • Herbert Macpherson 78th Regiment of Foot 25 September 1857 Lucknow, India
  • Patrick Mahoney 1st Madras European Fusiliers 21 September 1857 Mungulwar, India
  • Ross Lowis Mangles (1833-1905) Bengal Civil Service 30 July 1857 Arrah, India
  • Francis Maude Royal Regiment of Artillery 25 September 1857 Lucknow, India
  • Arthur Mayo Naval Brigade 22 November 1857 Dacca, India
  • William McBean 93rd Regiment of Foot 11 March 1858 Lucknow, India
  • William McDonell Bengal Civil Service 30 July 1857 Arrah, India
  • John McGovern 1st Bengal European Fusiliers 23 June 1857 Delhi, India
  • James McGuire 1st Bengal European Fusiliers 14 September 1857 Delhi, India
  • Patrick McHale 5th Regiment of Foot 2 October 1857, 22 December 1857 Lucknow, India
  • Hugh McInnes Bengal Artillery 14 November 1857 to 22 November 1857 Lucknow, India
  • Peter McManus 5th Regiment of Foot 26 September 1857 Lucknow, India
  • Surgeon Valentine Munbee McMaster (1834-1872) 78th Regiment of Foot 25 September 1857 Lucknow, India
  • Stewart McPherson 78th Regiment of Foot 26 September 1857 Lucknow, India
  • Bernard McQuirt 95th Regiment of Foot 6 January 1858 Rowa, India
  • Duncan Millar 42nd Regiment of Foot 15 January 1859 Maylah Ghat, India
  • James Miller Bengal Ordnance Depot 28 October 1857 Agra, India
  • Thomas Monaghan 2nd Dragoon Guards 8 October 1858 Jamo, India
  • George Monger 23rd Regiment of Foot 18 November 1857 Lucknow, India
  • Samuel Morley Military Train 15 April 1858 Azumgurh, India
  • James Munro 93rd Regiment of Foot 16 November 1857 Lucknow, India ❖
  • Michael Murphy Military Train 15 April 1858 Azumgurh, India
  • Patrick Mylott 84th Regiment of Foot 12 July 1857 to 25 September 1857 Lucknow, India
  • William Napier 13th Regiment of Foot 6 April 1858 Azumgurh, India
  • William Nash Rifle Brigade 11 March 1858 Lucknow, India
  • Robert Newell 9th Queen's Royal Lancers 19 March 1858 Lucknow, India
  • William Olpherts Bengal Artillery 25 September 1857 Lucknow, India
  • William Oxenham 32nd Regiment of Foot 30 June 1857 Lucknow, India
  • James Park Bengal Artillery 14 November 1857 to 22 November 1857 Lucknow, India
  • John Paton 93rd Regiment of Foot 16 November 1857 Lucknow, India ❖
  • James Pearson 86th Regiment of Foot 3 April 1858 Jhansi, India
  • John Pearson 8th King's Royal Irish Hussars 17 June 1858 Gwalior, India
  • Everard Aloysius Lisle Phillipps (1835-1857) 11th Bengal Native Infantry 30 May 1857 to 18 September 1857 Delhi, India
  • General Sir Harry North Dalyrymple Prendergast (1834-1913) Madras Engineers 21 November 1857 Mundisore, India
  • Dighton Probyn 2nd Punjab Cavalry 1857 to 1858 Agra, India
  • John Purcell 9th Queen's Royal Lancers 19 June 1857 Delhi, India
  • Charles Pye 53rd Regiment of Foot 17 November 1857 Lucknow, India
  • William Raynor Bengal Veterans Establishment 11 May 1857 Delhi, India
  • Surgeon General Herbert Reade(1823 - 1897) 61st Regiment of Foot 14 September 1857 Delhi, India
  • William Rennie 90th Regiment of Foot 21 September 1857, 5 September 1857 Lucknow, India
  • George Renny Bengal Horse Artillery 16 September 1857 Delhi, India
  • George Richardson 34th Regiment of Foot 27 April 1859 Kewane Trans-Gogra, India
  • Frederick Roberts Bengal Horse Artillery 2 January 1858 Khodagunge, India
  • James Roberts 9th Queen's Royal Lancers 28 September 1857 Bolandshahr, India
  • Edward Robinson Naval Brigade 13 March 1858 Lucknow, India ❖
  • Patrick Roddy Bengal Army 27 September 1858 Kuthirga, India
  • George Rodgers 71st Regiment of Foot 16 June 1858 Marar, India
  • Matthew Rosamund 37th Bengal Native Infantry 4 June 1857 Benares, India
  • David Rushe 9th Queen's Royal Lancers 19 March 1858 Lucknow, India
  • John Ryan 1st Madras European Fusiliers 26 September 1857 Lucknow, India
  • Miles Ryan 1st Bengal European Fusiliers 14 September 1857 Delhi, India
  • Philip Salkeld Bengal Sappers and Miners 14 September 1857 Delhi, India
  • Nowell Salmon Naval Brigade 16 November 1857 Lucknow, India ❖
  • Same Shaw Rifle Brigade 13 June 1858 Lucknow, India
  • Robert Shebbeare 60th Bengal Native Infantry 14 September 1857 Delhi, India
  • John Simpson 42nd Regiment of Foot 15 April 1858 Fort Ruhya, India
  • John Sinnott 84th Regiment of Foot 6 October 1857 Lucknow, India
  • Michael Sleavon Corps of Royal Engineers 3 April 1858 Jhansi, India
  • Henry Smith 52nd Regiment of Foot 14 September 1857 Delhi, India
  • John Smith 1st Madras European Fusiliers 16 November 1857 Lucknow, India ❖
  • John Smith Bengal Sappers and Miners 14 September 1857 Delhi, India
  • David Spence 9th Queen's Royal Lancers 17 January 1858 Shumsabad, India
  • Edward Spence 42nd Regiment of Foot 15 April 1858[15] Fort Ruhya, India
  • William George Drummond Stewart (1831-1868) 93rd Regiment of Foot 16 November 1857 Lucknow, India ❖
  • William Sutton 60th Rifles 2 August 1857 to 13 September 1857 Delhi, India
  • Edward Thackeray Bengal Sappers and Miners 16 September 1857 Delhi, India
  • Jacob Thomas Bengal Artillery 27 September 1857 Lucknow, India
  • Alexander Thompson 42nd Regiment of Foot 15 April 1858 Fort Ruhya, India
  • William Thompson 60th Rifles 9 July 1857 Delhi, India[17]
  • Major General Sir Henry Tombs(1824 - 1874) Bengal Horse Artillery 9 July 1857 Delhi, India
  • James Travers 2nd Bengal Native Infantry July 1857[18] Indore, India
  • Samuel Turner 60th Rifles 19 June 1857 Delhi, India
  • John Tytler 66th Bengal Native Infantry 10 February 1858 Choorpoorah, India
  • Richard Wadeson 75th Regiment of Foot 17 July 1857 Delhi, India
  • George Waller 60th Rifles 14 September 1857, 18 September 1857 Delhi, India
  • William Waller 25th Bombay Light Infantry 20 June 1858 Gwalior, India
  • Henry Ward 78th Regiment of Foot 25 September 1857 Lucknow, India
  • Joseph Ward 8th King's Royal Irish Hussars 17 June 1858 Gwalior, India
  • John Watson 1st Punjab Cavalry 14 November 1857 Lucknow, India
  • Frederick Whirlpool 3rd Bombay European Regiment 3 April 1858, 2 May 1858 Jhansi, India Lohari India
  • Brigadier General Sir Henry Wilmot, 5th Bt. (1831-1901) Rifle Brigade 11 March 1858 Lucknow, India
  • Field Marshal Sir Henry Evelyn Wood (1838-1919) 17th Lancers 19 October 1858 Sinwaho, India
  • Thomas Young Naval Brigade 16 November 1857 Lucknow, India ❖

Reference - https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_Indian_Mutiny_Victoria_Cross_...

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290,000 Indian Mutiny Medals were awarded. Clasps were awarded for the siege of Delhi and the siege and relief of Lucknow.

Martin Richard Gubbins (1812-1863)
Dr. Edward Mason Wrench Kirke (1833-1912)

Indian Order of Merit
A military and civilian decoration of British India, the Indian Order of Merit was first introduced by the East India Company in 1837, and was taken over by the Crown in 1858, following the Indian Mutiny of 1857. The Indian Order of Merit was the only gallantry medal available to Native soldiers between 1837 and 1907.

Indian Leaders associated with the revolt

During the 1857 Revolt, also known as the Indian Rebellion of 1857 or the First War of Independence, several prominent leaders emerged from different regions of India.

Abdul Ali Khan Muradabad

Ahmadullah Shah (1787-1858) (advisor of Nana Sahib, the ex-Nawab of Awadh).
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ahmadullah_Shah

Amar Singh Bihar (Jagdishpur)

Bahadur Shah Zafar

Bahadur Shah Zafar was the last Mughal emperor. He was a symbol of Muslim resistance to British rule. Zafar was arrested and exiled to Burma after the revolt was suppressed. He died in 1862.

Bahadur Shah II

General Bakht Khan (Delhi)

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Bakht_Khan
In Delhi, the rebellion was led by Bakht Khan. He arrived in Delhi on July 3, 1857, and assumed the role of the commander-in-chief. Bakht Khan formed a court of soldiers and civilians to govern the rebellion in the name of the nominal leader, Bahadur Shah Zafar.

Begum Hazrat Mahal (Lucknow)

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Begum_Hazrat_Mahal
Begum Hazrat Mahal, wife of Nawab Wajid Ali Shah of Awadh, led the rebellion in Lucknow. After the British imprisoned her husband and annexed Awadh, she rallied the people to resist British rule. She declared her son, Birjis Khadir, as the Nawab of Awadh and ruled on his behalf, challenging British troops and encouraging patriotism among the people.

Birjis Qadir

Chetram Jatav

Freedom warrior Chetram Jatav took part in the Indian Rebellion of 1857. On May 26, 1857, in the North-Western Provinces’ Soro area of Eta, he joined the mutiny (now Uttar Pradesh). They were shot while being tied to a tree.

Firoz Shah Mandsor

Gajadhar Singh Gorakhpur

Jaidayal Singh Rajasthan

Hakim Ahsanullah (Chief advisor to Bahadur Shah II)

Hardayal Singh Rajasthan

Kadam Singh Mathura
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Kadam_Singh

Kandapareshwar Singh Assam

Khan Bahadur Khan Bareilly
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Khan_Bahadur_Khan_Rohilla

Kunwar Singh (Bihar)
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Kunwar_Singh

Kunwar Singh, an elderly zamindar (landowner) from Bihar’s Arrah region, played a significant role in organising resistance against the British. At the age of 80, he led a distinct band of soldiers against the East India Company’s troops in Bihar, merging civil and military rebellions to challenge British rule.

Man Singh:
Man Singh was the Raja of Amber and a trusted general of the Maratha Empire. He played an important role in leading the revolt in Central India.

Manirama Datta Assam

Mangal Pandey (Barrackpore)

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Mangal_Pandey

Mangal Pandey - a young soldier in the 34th Bengal Native Infantry, who became a symbol of rebellion when he attacked Lieutenant Baugh, the adjutant of his regiment, on March 29, 1857. His act of defiance against the use of cartridges greased with animal fat sparked a widespread revolt among sepoys.

Maulvi Liaquat Ali (Allahabad)
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Maulvi_Liaquat_Ali
Maulvi Liaquat Ali, who initially served in the British army, turned against them and began spreading anti-British sentiments among Indian soldiers. After being dismissed from the army, he continued his activities in his village of Mahagaon. Ali led an attack on Allahabad, defeating the East India Company’s forces and declaring himself the representative of Bahadur Shah Zafar, the last Mughal emperor. However, he had to abandon the battlefield

Mohammad Khan Bijnaur

Nana Saheb (Kanpur)

Nana Saheb, the adopted son of the exiled Peshwa Baji Rao II, played a significant role in the revolt in Kanpur. On June 6, 1857, he led an attack on British soldiers of the 53rd Native Infantry. He later besieged and captured the British entrenchment under General Sir Hugh Wheeler. Nana Saheb proclaimed himself as the Peshwa, the ruler of Kanpur.

Rani Lakshmibai (Jhansi)

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Rani_of_Jhansi
Rani Lakshmibai of Jhansi was a courageous queen who fiercely resisted British rule. After her husband’s death and the annexation of Jhansi, she took up arms and led the rebels in Bundelkhand. Despite facing overwhelming odds, she valiantly defended Jhansi against British forces led by Hugh Rose. She later fought alongside Tatya Tope in Gwalior.

Rao Sahib (nephew of Nana)

Sevi Singh Mathura

Surendra Shahi Orissa

Tatya Tope (Kanpur/Gwalior)

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Tatya_Tope
Tatya or Tantia, Tope was an influential rebel leader who actively participated in the revolt at Kanpur and later in Gwalior. He employed guerrilla warfare tactics and captured Kanpur, establishing Nana Saheb’s authority. After the British forces’ retreat, he went to Gwalior but was betrayed by Raja Man Singh. Tope was eventually captured and executed by the British.

Tufzal Hasan Khan Farrukhabad

Ujjwal Shahi Orissa

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