What Really Happened During the Mutiny A Day-by-Day Account of the Major Events of 1857-1859 in India

Abstract

Pre-1857
It is inappropriate, and would be historically inaccurate, to dismiss the Mutiny in 1857 of the Bengal Army of the Honorable East India Company as an isolated phenomenon, or, for that matter, to attempt to categorise it as of purely military significance.
JANUARY-MARCH 1857
January At the beginning of this year the East India Company had a composite force of European and Indian troops to guard its interests in India, by a coincidence the European troops were abnormally below establishment.