The Great Mutiny – India 1857 –

“On a stiflingly hot Sunday in May 1857, three regiments of Indian troops broke out in  violent mutiny at Meerut, forty miles from Delhi. British officers and their wives were murdered; bungalows and public buildings were burned to the ground; men with knives, sticks, and flaming torches poured down from the surrounding villages and joined hooligans from the bazaar in completing the destruction of British power and property. Soon all the North-Western Provinces in India were in uproars. …”