Which preposition to use with sepoys

of Occurrences 6%

A sepoy of the Bengal native infantry was accused by one of his comrades of having stolen a rupee and a pair of trousers.

on Occurrences 4%

Late detachments of sepoys were sent from the Ridge to the Cashmere gate, under the command of their European officers, to help the sepoys on duty to maintain order in the city.

in Occurrences 4%

He engaged to organize fifteen hundred fighting men to act against the sepoys in the event of an outbreak.

from Occurrences 3%

As the sun sinks low in the west, a stream of worshippers flows through the mosque-gatesrich black-coated Persian merchants, picturesque full-bearded Moulvis, smart sepoys from Hindustan, gold-turbaned shrewd-eyed Memon traders, ruddy Jats from Multan, high-cheeked Sidis, heavily dressed Bukharans, Arabs, Afghans and pallid embroiderers from Surat, who grudge the half-hour stolen from the daylight.

in Occurrences 3%

Throughout the world, where the armies of Great Britain are stationed or serve, the death-rate is greater among the troops than among civilians of the same races and ages, except among the colored troops in Tobago, Montserrat, Antigua, and Granada in America, and among the Sepoys in the East Indies.[10]

for Occurrences 3%

One day a low-caste native, known as a lascar, asked a Brahmin sepoy for a drink of water from his brass pot.

to Occurrences 2%

The stampede of the sepoys to Delhi was fatal to his mad ambition.

into Occurrences 2%

The news of the revolt at Meerut threw the sepoys into a ferment at every military station in Hindustan.

under Occurrences 2%

Ross, with Jones and about ninety-three Sikhs, left Mastuj on the 7th March, with the intention of helping Edwardes and Fowler, who were believed to be in danger at Reshun, and marched to Buni; leaving a detachment there of thirty-three sepoys under a native officer, he marched with Jones and sixty men for Reshun, hoping to arrive there that day.

to Occurrences 1%

Certainly there was a period of peace, when no wars troubled the State but those which were distant,on the very confines of the Empire, and that with rude barbarians, no more formidable in the eyes of the luxurious citizens of the capital than a revolt of the Sepoys to the eyes of the citizens of London, or Indian raids among the Rocky Mountains to the eyes of the people of New York.

at Occurrences 1%

We continued firing at each other in an irregular manner till about noon, at which time the Colonel ordered me to continue with my grenadier company and about 200 sepoys at the advance post, and that he would go with the rest of our troops to the entrance, which was about a mile back.

during Occurrences 1%

They succeeded eventually in finding two, the others probably being borne off as trophies by the sepoys during the evacuation of Delhi.

with Occurrences 1%

This was too much for the surgeon, who, drawing his sword, called on some men of the regiment close by, and led them in gallant style against the enemy, whom he dispersed with great loss, killing two sepoys with his own hand.

within Occurrences 1%

In some cases terrible punishment was meted out to mutinous Bengal sepoys within the Punjab, but the Imperial interests at stake were sufficient to justify every severity, although all must regret the painful necessity that called for such extreme measures.

against Occurrences 1%

INDIAN MUTINY, a wide-spread rebellion on the part chiefly of the Sepoys against British authority in 1857, and which was suppressed by a strong force under Sir Colin Campbell in 1858.

by Occurrences 1%

Heretofore you have held the Sikhs in subjection by the aid of the Sepoys, and the Sepoys by means of the Sikhs.

as Occurrences 1%

All these things, which the stubborn, stupid Englishmen considered insignificant, were regarded by the sepoys as deliberate attacks upon their religion, and certain conspirators, who had reasons for desiring to destroy British authority, used them to convince the native soldiers that the new regulations were a long-considered and deliberate attempt to deprive them of their caste and force them to become Christians.

Which preposition to use with  sepoys