sepoy rebellion

  • rebellion

    Rebels killed Europeans and Indian Christians
  • Delhi

    4,000 men occupied a ridge overlooking Delhi, they were too wear to overrule the city
  • Relief force

    The British relief force was shot upon and any man who survived was immediately killed
  • Defeat

    Lawrence's men retreated and they were defeated, Lawrence had around 1,600 troops
  • Period: to

    Captivity

    Cawnpore was held under control
  • Explosion

    Lawrence was killed when a shell entered his room and exploded, Colonel John Inglis was now in command
  • Women and Children

    The women and children who survived were imprisoned, they were later murdered and thrown down wells when the British were near
  • Relief Force

    Havelock's relief force reached Cawnpore. Havelock carried out indiscriminate reprisals against both guilty and innocent people
  • Punjab

    Reinforcements arrived with a train holding 32 guns and 2,000 men, hundreds of mutineers and innocent people were executed without trial
  • Diversity

    Most of the men were British, the rest were Sikhs, Punjabi Muslims and Gurkhas
  • Period: to

    Street Fighting

    Delhi was taken and was gone through but was recaptured
  • Casualties

    2500 soldiers left Cawnpore and fought their way back into Lucknow, they sustained major casualties and were too weak to evacuate the defenders
  • British Artillery

    Campbell's relief force arrived obtaining 4500 men. They stormed the wall enclosure around the Residency. The British Artillery opened a breach and the infantry stormed inside. They killed around 2500 rebels.
  • Evacuating the Residency

    Campbell evacuated the Residency
  • Tantya Tope

    Gathered an army to recapture the city, Carnpore was in rebel hands
  • Bombay

    Major-General Sir Hugh Rose's Central India Field Force advanced from Bombay
  • Attacks

    Campbell attacked Windhams and they were unprepared for the attack, Tantya's troops broke and fled
  • Saugor

    Rose relieved Saugor and then advanced on Jhansi
  • Campbell returns

    He returned to Lucknow and his reinforced army joined Outram's 4000 men
  • Construction

    Campbell attacked Lucknow and his engineers constructed bridges across the river Gumti
  • Nawab of Oudh

    Location was captured and looted, many of its defenders escaped into the countryside to continue fighting. Campbell beat off counter attacks
  • Defeat...again

    Rose's army took over Jhansi and then later defeated Tantya Tope's relief force
  • Jhansi

    Jhansi was stormed and looted. At least 5000 defenders died
  • Rose

    Rose advanced on Kalpi and won the battles of Kunch on May 1
  • Rose

    Rose won the battle of Kalpi on May 16
  • Gwalior

    Rebels took remaining forces into Gwalior to defeat its pro British ruler.
  • Rose

    Rose left Kalpi and marched to Gwalior. He recaptured Morar and defeated rebels at Kotah-ke-Serai. The Rani was killed
  • Recaptured

    British recaptured Gwalior. Most rebels surrendered or went into hiding. Tantya dodged the British until April 1859 and he was betrayed and hung