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Example sentences for "mutinied"

Lexicographically close words:
mutilation; mutilations; mutineer; mutineers; mutinie; mutinies; mutinous; mutiny; mutism; mutt
  1. Meanwhile Don Hugo de Moncada had escaped with a remnant of his forces to Iviza, in the Balearics, where he wintered, and where his men mutinied because he was unable to pay them.

  2. On June 12 the military police mutinied in a body, and went off to Cawnpore; they were pursued for eight miles and about twenty were killed.

  3. On the 5th of June, so they were told, the Cawnpore regiments mutinied and set off for Delhi.

  4. Two of the rascally Third Cavalry, who mutinied at Meerut.

  5. But upon the other shore were enemies as bloodthirsty as those they left behind, for there the Sepoys of the Seventeenth Native Regiment, who had mutinied at Azimghur, were posted, and these cut off the retreat of the fugitives there.

  6. On the 27th we left the Guayaquil river, and on the 29th fell in with Captain Simpson, of the Araucano, whose crew had mutinied and carried off the ship.

  7. Several sepoy regiments had mutinied in Rohilcund, to the north-west of Oudh, and joined the rebels at Delhi.

  8. A sepoy regiment mutinied after it was disarmed, and tried to escape to Delhi.

  9. The thanks of Lord Canning were sent by telegraph to the officers and men, and news arrived at the same time that the sepoys had mutinied at Benares, and were in full march to Allahabad en route for Delhi.

  10. The power which he wielded over men is shown by his incomparable control over an army of various nations and many tongues--an army which never in the worst times mutinied against him.

  11. While the new generals with good reason refused to allow the relief of the existing corps as a whole, the men mutinied and threatened that, if they were not allowed their discharge, they would take it of their own accord.

  12. There was an attempt to bring out the German Fleet for a last fight, but the sailors mutinied (November 7th).

  13. The territories of Carthage seethed with violent disorder; the returning soldiers could not get their pay, and mutinied and looted; the land went uncultivated.

  14. Futtehpore town had been carried by a rush, and there had been some hand-to-hand fighting in the streets--for the mutinied Sepoys dodged about among the houses and had to be driven out.

  15. The mob of the city in their thousands hurried to co-operate with the mutinied soldiers and share in the spoils of the sack, so that the Residency was soon besieged.

  16. The troops mutinied at Meerut last night, and killed a lot of people.

  17. A thousand of them or thereabouts would return to Delhi no more; but, even so, if all the regiments known to have mutinied and come to Delhi were at their full strength, the odds must still be close on four to one.

  18. We had not been long at Rawal Pindi before we heard that the uneasiness at Peshawar was hourly increasing, and that the detachment of the 55th Native Infantry[1] at Nowshera had mutinied and broken open the magazine.

  19. Even after half the Native army had mutinied and many officers had been murdered, those belonging to the remaining regiments could not believe that their own particular men could be guilty of treachery.

  20. But the Wali's army mutinied and deserted to Ayub, and General Burrows decided to retire to Kushk-i-Nakhud, thirty miles in rear of the Helmund.

  21. Then came the end: the hillsides were crowded with fierce mountaineers; the 44th Regiment were ordered to the front; they mutinied and threatened to shoot their officers, broke their ranks, and were cut down in detail by the Afghans.

  22. There was one thing which I had quite forgotten when I mutinied and left my companions, which was, the necessity of water to drink; and I now perceived that they had taken possession of the spot where the only water had as yet been found.

  23. I believe that others would have now mutinied as well as myself, if they had known what to mutiny about.

  24. The Volunteers mutinied outright refusing to serve longer under his orders unless he would alter his policy to one of extreme severity.

  25. The revolution burst out anew in the Province of Oriente, and when Callejas ordered the local troops of Havana to proceed thither, they mutinied and refused to go.

  26. In June 1857 the Gwâlior soldiery mutinied and massacred the Europeans, but the Maharâjâ remained throughout loyal to the English Government.

  27. Still so much remained, that the demands of the seamen, when they mutinied at Spithead, were not less due to themselves than desirable for the general interests of the service.

  28. They mutinied at once and took to their rifles, saying that they would not follow a lunatic any farther, a man who asked them to take a canoe over a hill.

  29. My men mutinied on hearing of my plan, which I had kept concealed from them.

  30. On the next Friday the remnant of the native force which had mutinied at Benares made their appearance on the opposite side of the river.

  31. The First Regiment mutinied like the cavalry, and went away.


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