1-648-932 - The Print Collector/Heritage Images

Futtypore Sicri, India, c1860. Futtypore Sicri is situated about 20 miles from Agra, and was the favourite palace of the Mogul emperors. Here, a body of the Sepoy Mutineers were defeated by Colonel Cotton on the 28th October 1857. The Indian Rebellion of 1857 began in the town of Meerut and soon erupted into other mutinies and civilian rebellions across many regions of Company-ruled north-central India. The rebellion posed a considerable threat to British power in that region and it was contained only with the fall of Gwalior on 20 June 1858. The rebellion is also often known as the Indian Mutiny, the Sepoy Mutiny, the Great Rebellion, the Revolt of 1857 and occasionally, in India, as the First War of Independence. From The History of the Indian Mutiny, volume VII, by Charles Ball, published by The London Printing & Publishing Company (c1860).