Sepoy Rebellion
Sepoy Rebellion
By: Raquel Hayner
The year is 1857; the British now control most of the Indian subcontinent. We’re even trying to improve the Indians by influencing them to become more like us, the superior race. Yet, even after our efforts of trying to help them, these savage sepoys, or Indian soldiers, rebelled against the British not that long ago.
Supposedly, rumors have spread to the sepoys that we were going to give Indian soldiers new rifles whose cartridges are sealed with beef and pork fat. And to use the cartridges they would have to bite off the seal. Now since the Hindus believe that a cow is sacred, and since Muslims don’t eat pork, they were both outraged by this ridiculous rumor. It’s incredulous how they could believe such a senseless rumor.
A garrison commander was stunned to find 85 out of 90 sepoys refuse to accept the cartridges. To punish the sepoys for their wrong doing the British did the right thing and put them to jail. The next day, on May 10th,......
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