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The Texas–Indian wars were a series of conflicts between settlers in Texas and the Southern Plains Indians during the 19th-century. Conflict between the Plains Indians and the Spanish began before other European and Anglo-American settlers were encouraged—first by Spain and then by the newly Independent Mexican government—to colonize Texas in order to provide a protective-settlement ...
The Indian Rebellion of 1857 was 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. [ 4 ] [ 5 ] The rebellion began on 10 May 1857 in the form of a mutiny of sepoys of the company's army in the garrison town of Meerut , 40 mi (64 km ...
Causes of the Indian Rebellion of 1857. Historians have identified diverse political, economic, military, religious and social causes of the Indian Rebellion of 1857 (first war of Indian independence). An uprising in several sepoy companies of the Bengal army was sparked by the issue of new gunpowder cartridges for the Enfield rifle in February ...
10 May. Mutiny and Murders at Meerut, troops head towards Delhi. 11 May. Europeans, and Christians slaughtered in Delhi. 13 May. Bahadur Shah Zafar proclaimed new Mughal emperor; British disarm the garrison at Lahore. 17 May. Delhi Field Force, under George Anson, advances from Ambala. 22 May.
Antelope Hills expedition. Part of the American Indian Wars, Texas-Indian Wars, Apache Wars. Comanches of West Texas in war regalia. Painting by Lino Sánchez y Tapia, circa 1830s. Date. January 21, 1858 – May 12, 1858. Location. Comancheria, Texas, Oklahoma. 35°54′15″N 99°53′04″W.
Contents. John Nicholson (East India Company officer) Brigadier General John Nicholson, CB (11 December 1822 – 23 September 1857) was an Anglo-Irish military officer who rose to prominence during his career in British India. Born in Ireland, Nicholson moved to the Indian subcontinent at a young age and obtained a commission in the Bengal Army ...
Corps of Guides Hodson's Horse. Battles/wars. First Anglo-Sikh War Indian Mutiny. William Stephen Raikes Hodson (19 March 1821 – 11 March 1858) was a British leader of irregular light cavalry during the Indian Rebellion of 1857, commonly referred to as the Indian Mutiny or the Sepoy Mutiny. He was known as "Hodson of Hodson's Horse ".
Unknown. The siege of Cawnpore was a key episode in the Indian Rebellion of 1857. The besieged East India Company forces and civilians in Cawnpore (now Kanpur) were duped into a false assurance of a safe passage to Allahabad by the rebel forces under Nana Sahib. Their evacuation from Cawnpore thus turned into a massacre, and most of the men ...