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CHAPTER XI.
The Indian Mutiny, 1857—1859.
Services of the Indian Navy during the Sepoy Term used in English to refer to an Indian infantryman. Carries some derogatory connotations as sometimes used as a means of othering and emphasising race, colour, origins, or rank. Mutiny in Western India—Trans
port of Troops by Lieutenants Chitty and Sweny during the South-West
Monsoon on the Malabar Coast—Trooping by the other Ships of the Service
Mission of Captain Jenkins, C.B., to Mauritius and the Cape of Good Hope-
Bombay on the 13th of October, 1857—Indian Naval Artillery Brigades a
Bombay and Surat—Lieutenant Holt at Mooltan—Proclamation of the Queen s
Sovereignty on the 1st November, 1858—Operations against the Wagners
—The Bombardment of Bey and the Services of the Indian Naval Brigade a
the Siege of Dwarka.
ON the Western side of India the officers and men of the
Indian Navy did equally good service to the State, with
those of their brethren who were more fortunate in having^ as
their field for exertion, the districts of Bengal, where mutiny
and rebellion were, for a time, almost in the ascendant; but,
though the hydra-headed monster of sedition was crushed
promptly in the Western Presidency The name given to each of the three divisions of the territory of the East India Company, and later the British Raj, on the Indian subcontinent. , and a general mutiny ot
Bombay troops was never threatened, yet it is surprising an
inexplicable to find people of high authority denying that there
was ever any mutiny, while facts, pointing to a contrary cone u-
sion, stare them in the face. Thus the Secretary of ^ a . 6
India, Sir Charles Wood (now Lord Halifax) declared, m me
House of Commons, that there had been no overt mutiny in ie
Bombay Army, and the Duke of Argyll, besides writing, o e
same effect, in the " Edinburgh Review^," published a pampn e ,
in which he declared that " the breath of sedition never reac e
the Western Presidency The name given to each of the three divisions of the territory of the East India Company, and later the British Raj, on the Indian subcontinent. ." And these statements were maae
though mutinous Sepoys Term used in English to refer to an Indian infantryman. Carries some derogatory connotations as sometimes used as a means of othering and emphasising race, colour, origins, or rank. were blown from guns on
Green, itself, and, on the 31st of July, 1857, the 21th egime
of Bombay Native Infantry mutinied at Kolapore, in
Southern Mahratta country, and murdered three ot their otneers.
Sixty-three men of the Eegiment were executed by sen enc
court-martial, and sixty-six were transported *
* For the incidents of the Mutiny in the Southern Mahratta Co ^^
" Western India," by Major-General Sir George Le ^ ^
This officer, who was for many years Political Agent A mid-ranking political representative (equivalent to a Consul) from the diplomatic corps of the Government of India or one of its subordinate provincial governments, in charge of a Political Agency. m Cut wag ^
the Light Battalion during the Persian War, on c omm i ss ioner, and
vested bv Lord Elphinstone, with the powers of a p