Half-a-dozen sepoys with matchlocks, to which were attached red flags, slung over their shoulders, were cantering gaily up the hillside only a few yards in front of us.
They were, of course, no other than the three sepoys from Gyanema.
At this juncture the sepoys came to Clive, not to complain of their scanty fare, but to propose that all the grain should be given to the Europeans, who required more nourishment than the natives of Asia.
Re-enforced by seven hundred English troops and sepoys from Madras, and effecting a junction with the auxiliary Mahratta force, he soon overran all the Northern Carnatic.
Our sepoys were actually standing up to the wall, with their rifles pointing over at the Tibetans within a few feet of them.
After speaking very civilly to the two Lhasa officials, Mr. White was obliged to call two or three sepoys to clear the way, and the British officers then rode on, while the two Lhasa officers mounted and rode back to camp.
Some few sepoys were killed from the tops of the houses of Shamlee, many of which were higher than the little fort.
My wife, fortunately, had a small guard of sepoys at her house, there being some commissariat stores there.
Our brave sepoys mounted the breach like heroes; but at the top the fight seemed desperate on both sides, and at one time we thought our men were giving way.
Of the sepoys who thus broke their allegiance to the government, all who were taken suffered the heavy penalty of their crime--death.
Robert Clive, who was but twenty-five years old at this time, organized a large force of Sepoys and gained a remarkable ascendency over them by his astonishing bravery.
Clive hastened to Bengal, and with a little army of nine hundred Europeans and fifteen hundred Sepoys he gained a great victory at Plassey over the subahdar's army of fifty thousand men.
The combined forces now advanced on Gwalior, routed the sepoys in the battle of Gurrowlee, June 19th, and recaptured the city, June 20th, when Scindiah was restored to his throne.
The Bundelcund Sepoyswere amongst the first to mutiny.
While in the service of Shah Aulum, the Emperor, he commanded a body of cavalry and several disciplined battalions of sepoys officered by Europeans.
The King sent his female sepoys to turn her out of her palace, but she armed her servants, fought the sepoys, and put them to flight.
Then, stepping into her palanquin, she proceeded at the head of one hundred sepoys and a six-pounder (the latter commanded by a European) to the ground occupied by Munsoor Khan.
She was encamped with her sepoys to the right of the camp, and her troops not having been infected by the panic, waited, drawn up ready for action.
Whether they could have gone through the same marches in the field with thousands of mustachioed sepoys around them, I cannot tell--probably not.
Her troops were disbanded, and replaced by a few regiments of Sepoys and Sowars.
Her five battalions of sepoys were officered from nearly every country in Europe, and she had a body of five hundred European artillerymen, armed with forty guns of various calibre.
An interesting sketch of the female sepoys at Lucknow is given in the "Private Life of an Eastern King.
Of these female sepoys there were in all two companies of the usual strength, or weakness, if the reader will have it so.
The Sepoys thought that they had the game entirely in their hands, and that they would sweep us right out of India almost without resistance.
In an instant, that flank of the Sepoys was scattered in headlong flight, hotly pursued by their foes.
Besides, it was of course essential that you should not give the Sepoys time to rally, but should follow them up hotly.
As the latter approached a large open space in the middle of the village a strong body of Sepoys advanced in good order to meet them, led by their native officers.
The Sepoys scattered at once, and fled in all directions, pursued by the furious soldiers and the Punjaubies.
Nine guns were captured, none of which had been fired, the attack having been so sudden that the Sepoys had only had time to fall in before their assailants were upon them.
The Sepoys were now the assailants, and with furious shouts pressed round the little body of British troops.
He learned that several bodies of Sepoys had already passed the palace, on the highway, in the direction of Delhi.
The prince was not yet inclined to believe that the Sepoys could make headway against his detested patrons.
On May 6th it was paraded in the presence of the European force, and cartridges were served out; not the greased abominations from Calcutta, but the old ones which had been used times innumerable by the sepoys and their fathers.
Inspired by a wild fear and fury, the sepoys ran about murdering or wounding every European they met, and setting houses on fire, amid deafening shouts and uproar.
The English officers prepared to charge them, and gave the order to fire, but some of the sepoys refused to obey or only fired into the air.
In some stations there were incendiary fires; in others the sepoys were wanting in their usual respect to their European officers.
The sepoys were taunted by the loose women of the place with permitting their comrades to be imprisoned and fettered.
The news of the revolt at Meerut threw the sepoys into a ferment at every military station in Hindustan.
Indeed, but for the latter contingency, the gallant band would have rushed out of the intrenchment and cut a way through the mob of sepoys or perished in the attempt.
Then the fatal order was given; the sepoys poured in a volley of musketry, and all was over.
Late detachments of sepoys were sent from the Ridge to the Cashmere gate, under the command of their European officers, to help the sepoys on duty to maintain order in the city.
He engaged to organize fifteen hundred fighting men to act against the sepoys in the event of an outbreak.
The stampede of thesepoys to Delhi was fatal to his mad ambition.
Two bodies of sepoys broke away from the city and fled down the valleys of the Jumna and Ganges, followed by two flying columns under Brigadiers Greathed and Showers.
On the other side one of their sepoys complained of pain in the stomach, and he was left behind with another sepoy to look after him, but he died at night.
By the time that I had reached within about one hundred yards of the sangar at this end I had only two sepoys left with me unwounded, and it was therefore impossible for me to proceed any further.
At dusk an attempt was made to procure water again, and Lieutenant Fowler with twenty sepoys started down towards the river.
But there were also some sepoys wounded; and these in Fowler's opinion had to be looked after first.
Some days afterwards a sangar was built about 300 yards below the fort, but Lieutenant Moberly moved out with a party of eighty sepoys and rushed it.
As the chief would not allow the sepoys to go with the British officers to Chitral, they decided upon accepting the alternative of accompanying Umra Khan to Jandul, and started for that place on the following day.
The officers remained here about a fortnight; but on the 1st of April the Mussulman sepoys were told that they could consider themselves at liberty, and the guard over them was removed.
A large number of sepoys were killed, or so severely wounded as not to be able to move, by the stones down the shoot which ran right into the river, and Captain Ross himself was killed in front of one of the sangars.
Of the remaining fifteen, I myself and nine sepoys were wounded.
From the Chitral fort they had obtained a bag of sugar and a pound of tea, which they considered great luxuries, and they cooked food with the assistance of the sepoys who from Chitral onwards were accompanying them.
The works of Manilla were carried by storm, and Draper's forces, which were chiefly composed of Sepoys and Lascars, began to plunder and destroy the city.
On the departure of Tippoo from the Carnatic, General Stuart had only the French and some sepoys to contend with, and these were posted behind their fortified lines at Cuddalore.
Both the revolted sepoys and the insurgents showed a sanguinary delight in murdering women and children.
At the same time, Clive sent directions to the commanding officers of all the divisions to find, if possible, the leaders; to arrest those who appeared most dangerous; and above all to secure the obedience of the sepoys and native commanders.
In this conflict four thousandsepoys and six hundred Europeans were slain, among whom was Colonel Fletcher.
While the Bengal Sepoys were obstructed by obstacles which they could not surmount, the Bombay column gained an entrance.
Still they long kept their ground; and it was not till all the sepoyswere broken and cut to pieces that the British gave way.
The battle was decided in favour of the British; the sepoys fled, pursued by the carbineers, who continued the pursuit until night closed around conquerors and fugitives.
The sepoys suddenly arose there, attacked their officers, murdered some, and, having set fire to the cantonments, marched to Delhi.
The sepoys came to Clive, not to complain of their scanty fare, but to propose that all the grain should be given to the Europeans, who required more nourishment than the natives of Asia.
The evil continued to grow till every mess-room became the seat of conspiracy and cabal, and till the sepoys could be kept in order only by wholesale executions.
Nine new battalions of sepoys were raised, and a corps of native artillery was formed out of the hardy Lascars of the Bay of Bengal.
The sepoys in many British garrisons flung down their arms.
Two hundred English soldiers and seven hundred sepoys were sent to him, and with this force he instantly commenced offensive operations.
It consisted of five hundred newly levied sepoys and two hundred recruits who had just landed from England, and who were the worst and lowest wretches that the Company's crimps could pick up in the flash-houses of London.
A hostile monarch may promise mountains of gold to our sepoys on condition that they will desert the standard of the Company The Company promises only a moderate pension after a long service.
The handful of sepoys who attended Hastings would probably have been sufficient to overawe Moorshedabad, or the Black Town of Calcutta.
It is late and the sepoys sleep; if you will be circumspect and are not afraid--" "Who are you?
Those damned sepoys tried to prevent my seeing you and now they've cleared out, every mother's son of them!
I don't believe those damned sepoys will bother us much, now, but we've got no time at all to spare.
The sepoys have an order to prevent all from entrance.
Outside, in the compound, the sepoys were chattering volubly; their words were indistinguishable, but from their constantly increasing animation Amber inferred that they were keenly relishing the topic of discussion.
According to the order, I have written to Brejunekar Shah Rehemet Ullah, who is in Bhooaparah, charging him to take bonds from them, and that whatever sepoys fit for service are collected he should send to the presence.
Were those sepoysthat brought in the prisoners part of the Nabob's army, or were they any British troops?
These tools of foresters were almost always required; but the advance of the expedition was often retarded by the unwillingness of the Sepoys and Johanna men to work.
At the head of the column were a hundred Sepoys of the Hundred and Ninety-Eighth, under Stanner.
Bloke with a helmet and a white face hasn’t an earthly, advancing with a line of Sepoys in puggris.
On the fore and aft well-decks, crowds of sick or wounded Sepoys crouched huddled in grey blankets, or moved slowly about with every evidence of woe and pain.
Show the Germanis and their Hubshis {50} what Indian Sepoys can do—both in time of battle and in time of hunger, thirst, and hardship.
Throughout the morning detachments of Sepoys of the Indian Army and Imperial Service Troops continued to arrive at the wharf and to embark.
At another word from the officer the statuesque Sepoys again sprang to life, seized each man a piece of the dismembered gun, lifted it above his head, raised it up and down, replaced it on the ground and once more stood at attention.
He wheeled round and faced the Sepoys just behind him, even as the blast of the whistle ceased.
In the shade of the sheds the Sepoys sprawled, even the cheery Gurkhas seemed unhappy and uncomfortable in that fiery furnace.
Five minutes after he had landed, Bertram found it difficult to believe that a hundred Gurkha Sepoys were within a hundred yards of him, for not one was visible.
When this did happen, the Sepoys roared with laughter and appeared to be immensely diverted.
Many of the town people and of the Sepoystook to flight, some crossing the river by the bridge, some by swimming.
At Meerut, on the Upper Ganges, the Sepoys broke into rebellion, liberated their comrades who were being led away in chains, and marched in a body to Delhi, the ancient capital of India and former seat of the Mogul empire.
In every house were dead or dying, and the corpses of Sepoys lay piled up several feet in height.
There the insurgent Sepoys fought with desperation, but they were defeated, and the British entered the town, but not in time to rescue the women and children, whose slaughter had just taken place.
The Sepoys had been drilled by British officers, were well supplied with arms and ammunition, and from the housetops of the town kept up an incessant fire that searched every corner of the defended fortress.
The city was held with desperation by the rebels, fighting going on in the streets for six days before the Sepoys fled.
The Bengal sepoys were mostly Rájputs and showed the highest military qualities in many a wearisome march and hard fought field, from the days of Clive to those of Lake and Arthur Wellesley.
His successor, General Hutchinson, completed his work by taking Cairo, before the arrival of General Baird, who had led a mixed body of British soldiers and sepoys from the Red Sea across the desert to the Nile.
This was carried, but the same night the garrison sallied out again, and fell upon the party of Sepoysposted there.
You can tell the whites, and I will let the Sepoys know, that they will have to be in readiness all night, and that they had better, therefore, sleep as much as possible today.
However, I shall at once raise a Bengal native army, and so release the Sepoys of Madras.
In Madras, both the English and French dress their Sepoys in white.
Two companies of Sepoys set forward, at full run, up to the very crest of the glacis.
A body of French infantry were placed in support of the guns, with some Sepoys in reserve behind the grove.
Lally had, in vain, endeavoured to bring the Sepoysforward to the attack, to restore the day.
Colonel Coote brought up two guns, and these, being kept concealed from the enemy until they came within two hundred yards, opened suddenly upon them, while the Sepoys fired heavily with their muskets.
These acted as guides, and led him by a route by which he avoided the French position; and effected a junction with two hundred Europeans, and four hundred Sepoys from Trichinopoli; and with a body of Mahratta cavalry, under Murari Reo.
The Sepoys were on the flanks, the Company's two battalions in the centre, with Coote's regiment on their right and Draper's on their left.
At ten at night fourteen hundred French infantry, a hundred French horse, and nine hundred Sepoys marched out to attack the English, who had no suspicion of their intent.
We tried some green weed or other theSepoys gathered on the maidan.
We got somesepoys to carry our kit, or rather the remains of it, and as I left the tiny courtyard the last thing I saw was poor Don Juan's black tail hanging on a nail on the post in the sun to dry.
This sort of thing had gone on quite a time when the officer on picket duty got about a dozen sepoys to fire a volley at the Turks just by way of exchanging compliments.
There is no telling what might have been the course of history in India if the sepoys had stopped telegraphic communication from the North to Calcutta early in May.
He was sure the sepoys would revolt, but he believed they would hurry off to Delhi, and he refused to give them an excuse for rebellion by seizing the magazine.
His bearer,[5] a Punjabi Mohammedan, who cursed the sepoys fluently for disturbing the country during the hot weather, handed him a note which had been brought by a camp follower.
At once the sepoys at the Kashmir Gate fired a volley at the nearest officers, of whom three fell dead.
The sepoys have come in from Meerut," he announced with the slow tick of the earliest form of apparatus.
The place named was a large village, ten miles northwest of the ridge, and Nicholson guessed instantly that the sepoys had planned the daring coup of cutting off the siege train.
It must never be forgotten that the sepoys had received their training from British officers.
And, when the sepoys overtake us, we shall at least have breath enough left to die fighting.
The sepoys paid for nothing and looted Mohammedans and Hindus alike.
Once a party of sepoys trudged through the mud, towards the water bastion of the palace, and the men whom they had relieved came back the same way a few minutes later.
For a whole week she gave their servants and sepoys nice food cooked with salt, but to her father and mother and sisters she only gave food cooked with sugar.
So he got his sepoys and guns into order, and went out to kill Ajit.
Then the King had to give it up and go home; and his sepoys went to their homes.
The King gave his daughter and the young prince a great many horses, and elephants, and all sorts of presents, and also a great many sepoys to guard them.
The sepoys tried in vain to shoot the horse; he galloped much too fast; and at last they were all scattered over the plain.
The King could not shoot any of his sepoys for letting his horse escape, for he himself had let him do so.
But one day another of the Pomegranate Raja's sepoys passed near the hut, and saw the children playing about.
So the next day the King placed his sepoys all round the stable, and he took up his stand with them; and he said he would himself shoot any one who let his horse escape.
The king felt sure this man could give him what he wanted, so when he woke he said to his sepoys and servants, "Stay here in this spot till I return to you; then we will go back to my country.
Then he thought that two men unaided could not kill such a wicked horse, so he ordered his servants to bid his troop of sepoys shoot him.
The Sepoys again had an ineradicable dislike to serve beyond the sea, and the invasion of Pegu necessitated their transport by water to the seat of war.
At the upper end there were a few European officers, while down each side were ranged three or four rows of dark sepoys seated on their hams, which is the favourite position among the natives.
When I got to the lines or houses of the sepoys I found a magnificent tent about two hundred feet long, into which I was ushered with much ceremony.
Then the Rajah retired to a sort of stone pavilion, or bastion, to perform his devotions, the guard of sepoys attending him in this act of religion.
They came to a resolution of driving them in by force, and gave orders to their sepoys to beat any one of the women who should attempt to move forward.
The sepoysconsequently assembled; and each one being provided with a bludgeon, they drove them by dint of beating into the zenanah.
The above list will hopefully give you a few useful examples demonstrating the appropriate usage of "sepoys" in a variety of sentences. We hope that you will now be able to make sentences using this word.
