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'''This event was part of the [[Indian Mutiny]]'''
== Synopsis ==
85 troopers of the 3rd Light Cavalry refused to accept their cartridges, were court martialled, sentenced and sent to the common jail in Meerut. The following day sepoys of the 11th & 20th Native Infantry stormed the jail and released the troopers and 1200 other prisoners. Colonel Finnis of the 11th BNI was shot on the parade ground, the bungalows of the European officers were set on fire and many of their families murdered. The 2,200 European troops were not used to oppose the mutineers who marched away to join the regiments in Delhi. Major-General W.H.Hewitt was removed from his command of the Meerut Division.
== European Casualties ==
* ''The last Mughal : the fall of a dynasty, Delhi, 1857'' by William Dalrymple. (London: Bloomsbury, 2006)
* ''The Indian Mutiny : 1857'' by David Saul. (London: Viking, 2002 )
* ''The Indian Mutiny 1857-58'' by Gregory Fremont-Barnes (Oxford: Osprey, 2007.)
* ''The great uprising in India 1857-58'' by Rosie Llewellyn-Jones.(Woodbridge: Boydell Press, 2007) )
