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Also Known As Revolt of 1857 • Indian Mutiny • Sepoy Mutiny • First War of Independence
Date May 10, 1857 - July 8, 1859
Location Agra • Delhi • India • Kanpur • Lucknow
Participants Mughal dynasty • United Kingdom
Context British Empire • Western colonialism • East India Company • British raj

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Tantia Tope
Indian rebel leader
Napier, Robert Napier, 1st Baron
Robert Napier, 1st Baron Napier
British field marshal
Mangal Pandey
Mangal Pandey
Indian soldier
Lord Canning
Charles John Canning, Earl Canning
British official
Lakshmi Bai
Lakshmi Bai
queen of Jhansi
Nana Sahib
Indian rebel
William Stephen Raikes Hodson
British cavalry leader
Sir Henry Havelock
Sir Henry Havelock
British soldier
Sir Colin Campbell
Colin Campbell, Baron Clyde
British commander
Hugh Henry Rose, Baron Strathnairn of Strathnairn and of Jhansi
British field marshal
John Nicholson, detail of a chalk drawing by William Carpenter, 1854; in the National Portrait Gallery, London
John Nicholson
British colonial official
Bakht Khan
Indian leader
Bahādur Shāh II
Bahādur Shāh II
Mughal emperor

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