Indian Mutiny
a revolt by the Sepoy soldiers against the British Government in India, begun in 1857. The immediate cause was the arming of the Sepoys with a new rifle whose use compelled them to touch the grease on the cartridge. This being forbidden by their religion, a mutiny began at Meerut, on May 10, and spread to Delhi, Cawnpur, and Lucknow. The The garrison at the latter place was relieved by Havelock in September and again by Campbell in was besieged and November. Delhi taken in 1857; Lucknow was finally captured in 1858; and the last resistance was suppressed in the same year. The fearful massacre at Cawnpur, ordered by Nana Sahib, in which many Europeans , including women and children, were killed, took place in July, 1857.