Sepoys

Angry Pakistanis are accusing their armed forces of having been rented to the United States as 'sepoys' -- the native troops of the old British Indian Raj. ❋ Unknown (2009)

The sepoys were the tools of the men behind the movement; and the men behind were priests and others who were feeling nothing but their own ambition. ❋ Mundy, Talbot, 1879-1940 (1914)

Such troops, commanded by white officers, were called "sepoys" in the British Indian Army and "askaris" in British East Africa. ❋ Unknown (2009)

When the "sepoys" rose against the British in what is touted as India's first war of Independence in 1857 under the leadership of the ageing Mughal Ruler Bahadur Shah the Punjabis sided with the British and turned the tide of what was becoming a sure defeat for the British. ❋ Steve Sailer (2002)

He conceived the idea of augmenting his slender garrisons of Europeans with "sepoys," or carefully drilled natives, and fortified his capital, Pondicherry, as if for war. ❋ Carlton J. H. Hayes (1923)

Demands for independence in India began as early as 1857, when Indian soldiers ( "sepoys") acquired new cartridge-based rifles. ❋ Unknown (2009)

Inevitable demands for independence in India began as early as 1857, when Indian soldiers ( "sepoys") acquired new cartridge-based rifles. ❋ Unknown (2009)

"Flashman - one of the sepoys was that Pathan orderly of yours - the big chap in the havildar's coat - they shot him in the ditch!" ❋ Unknown (2010)

It had been the same everywhere - Meerut, Bareilly, Aligarh, Etawah, Mainpuri (all of which were within a hundred miles or so), the splendid sepoys had triumphed all along the line, and soon every peasant in the land would receive a rupee and a new chicken. ❋ Unknown (2010)

I'd be less soft with the sepoys, too - and with some of our own people. ❋ Unknown (2010)

"If the 19th have been false to their salt, it is an ill thing," says he, and Mangal broke in excitedly to say hadn't the sahibs broken faith first, by trying to defile the sepoys 'caste? ❋ Unknown (2010)

By God, thinks I, that's all you know, and then Carmichael-Smith was growling on that he'd like to see one of his sepoys refuse the issue, by God he would. ❋ Unknown (2010)

When they Aussies, and some Indian sepoys finally reached Von Richtofen, he was near death and his plane on fire. ❋ Unknown (2010)

For example, Ewart was killed on the way to the ghat in a palankeen; Vibart's kit was carried and his wife escorted by rebels of his regiment; five loyal sepoys were murdered; Moore ( "the real defender of Cawnpore") was killed in the water, shoving off. ❋ Unknown (2010)

Wheeler had told those sepoys who had remained loyal and fought in the garrison to slip away over the southern rampart, for fear of reprisals from their mutinous fellows in the morning, but Ilderim wouldn't have it. ❋ Unknown (2010)

The British officers couldn't conceive that their beloved sepoys would be false to their salt - dammit, neither could the sepoys. ❋ Unknown (2010)

It was as though a great shadow had been lifted; cooking fires blazed outside the barrack for the first time in weeks, the wounded were brought out of that stinking oven to lie in the open air, and even the children frolicked on the parapet where we'd been slashing at the sepoys two days before. ❋ Unknown (2010)

[Sunil]: Hey did check out the article on [Reddit India] today? [Ravi]: That subreddit is full of sepoys, don't take anything you read there as a representation of actual India. ❋ Franker_Z (2019)

Some Indian Sepoys [organized] [mutiny] against [the British]. ❋ Rupal (2007)

[Man], [ur] [such a] sepoy ❋ BamJr (2003)

White Plunderers [to Brown] [Sepoy]: “How will you prove your locality?” Brown Sepoy: “Master, I'll [shet] on my own people, culture, and origins, because I'm only brown by my skin.” ❋ The Non Smoker (2022)

[Rupa] [Gulab] expects [Narendra Modi] to eat with cutlery, even though both of them are Indians. Rupa has Brown sepoy Syndrome. ❋ Imraand Khan (2022)