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"A little further up the road Dawson himself was lying on his face, quite dead, with an empty re- volver in his hand, and four sepoys lying across each other in front of him. "
Sepoy
(n.) A native of India employed as a soldier in the service of a European power, esp. of Great Britain; an Oriental soldier disciplined in the European manner.
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Comes from the Hindi 'sipahi', meaning soldier/private.
cheer
the sunshine warrior
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I just remembered reading in a history book about Napoleon
calling Arthur Wellesley at the beginning to the Peninsular War "a sepoy general". Perhaps Waterloo changed his attitute.
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Meerut, the city where my Dad was born, the city to which his greatgrandfather was shipped as an 18-yr old conscript, was the birthplace of the Sepoy Rebellion.
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