The Indian Mutiny

by Christopher Wilkinson-Latham

On April 24th, 1855, Colonel Carmichael Smyth held a parade of the ninety skirmishers of the 3rd Light Cavalry of the Bengal Army at Meerut, some 30 miles from Delhi. The disastrous events that followed sparked an almost wholesale mutiny of the Honourable East India Company's Bengal Native Army. Had the ensuing uprising succeeded, it would have threatened the validity of the entire British Empire. As it was, the Mutiny witnessed several tragic and...

• Format: Paperback
• Language: English
• ISBN: 0850452597
• ISBN13: 9780850452594
• Release Date: June 1977
• Publisher: Osprey Publishing (UK)
• Length: 48 Pages
• Weight: 2.40 lbs.
• Dimensions: 0.2" x 7.3" x 9.8"