Essay On Revolt Of 1857

The Revolutions of 1848 have been described as the “greatest revolution of the century”1. From its mild beginnings in Palermo, Sicily in January 1848, it did not take long to spread across the rest of Europe (Britain and Russia were the only countries not to experience such revolutions). “In 1848 more states on the European continent were overcome by revolution than ever before and ever since”2. The Revolutions became more radical but after June 1848 these revolutionary events began to overlap with those of counterrevolutionary actions, thus enabling the old regimes to return to power. 1848 was described as “a sunny spring of the peoples abruptly interrupted by the winter of the princes”3.

The rebellions of Upper and Lower Canada were in the interests of self-government but were doomed to failure from their beginning. Each of these two colonies encountered a great deal of problems right from the institution of the Constitution Act of 1791 and the problems continually got worse until the only choice to some seem to be rebellion. There were several problems that lead to the rebellions of 1837-38. In Lower Canada there was the agricultural crisis that caused a large number of starvations, to the French and English political and social problems within the colony. There were several different reasons that caused the rebellion in Upper Canada but these caused were mainly rooted in

Bacon’s Rebellion, Coode’s Rebellion, and Leisler’s Rebellion all happened between the dates of 1676-1691. Each rebellion was a cease or change of power. Whereas, in 1676, Nathaniel Bacon, recruited common men, John Coode used puritans and Jacob Leisler used his militia.

This company hired an English explorer, Henry Hudson, to seek great riches.  He sailed into the Delaware Bay and New York Bay in 1609 and then ascended the Hudson River.  He filed a Dutch claim to a wooded and watered area.  The Dutch West India Company was less powerful than the Dutch East India Company, and was based in the Caribbean.  It was more interested in raiding than trading.

The general cause of the Indian Independence Movement was India’s desire for independence from British, French and Portuguese Rule. The aim of the movement was “Swaraj, a self-governing India” (Sharma, 2005, p. 22). One, more specific, cause of the Indian Independence Movement took place in 1905 when the province of Bengal was divided into two provinces,

Open protest, conflicting interests, lives changed forever. This is a rebellion. You’re willing to fight the authorities to be heard. Armed rebellion is only justifiable if nothing else works. The Rebellions of Upper and Lower Canada, Red River Rebellion, and Northwest Rebellion are all part of Canadian history. They show us that people can go against the government which usually results in a large loss of life, but more importantly change.

This lead to the British using the army in wrong ways and the government being mostly white foreigners. The British made the Indian army and military academies to train officers. (According to Dr.Lalvani) However the British ended up using the Indian army against the Indians for example the Amritsar massacre. (Gandhi). The British created a superbly efficient administration over 500 million diverse people. (According to Dr.Lalvani) On the other hand as good as this may be the British government over India consisted of 960 officers, 900 of which were Englishmen. (Document 2). Because of this the Indians felt as if they had no responsibility over their own

Shays ' Rebellion, an armed uprising in Massachusetts during 1786 and 1787. Revolutionary War veteran Daniel Shays led four thousand rebels in

James I of England wanted to get the New World that Spain could not protect so he brought in the Virginia Company which was a joint stock company. The people who invested in this company wanted to make the overseas stronger and the people at home could produce and eat goods.

In India the way the British treated the Indians, made the Indians resist, and this created the Sepoy rebellion. The Sepoy rebellion was an unsuccessful uprising against the British in India. The reason they wanted to resist was the disrespectful treatment of the British. Indians received a lower pay than the British for working in the military. The Indians also had limited opportunities because, the British controlled the country so, they couldn’t do everything they wished. In India there were two main religions, Hindus and Muslims. According to their religion, the Hindus cannot eat cow meat, and the Muslims cannot eat pig meat. The British started using new weapons that made the soldiers put their mouths in cow and pig fat. Part of the Indians didn’t want to do it because, it is against their religion. The British punished the people who were against putting their mouths in the cow and pig fat and they tortured them(The Story of India). The Indians were agitated and, they wanted it to end so, they started the Sepoy rebellion but, it caused ninety years under the British

A rebellion is an act of violence or open resistance to an established government or ruler, it is an uprising, a revolt a mutiny. In the past there has been countless rebellions for countless reasons. There were rebellions that were documented and some rebellions that were probably never heard of, there were rebellions that worked for the good and some that worked in everyone’s favor but the ones who rebelled. Nat Turner’s slave rebellion was one of the largest slave rebellions to take place in the United States and one of the most life changing.

During 1450 C.E to 1750 C.E, the Qing empire’s method of conquest differed from the Portuguese’s method as the Qing sought to acquire more neighboring­land territory due to concerns for security instead of being more focused on establishing trade posts in distant lands and islands for control of commerce like the Portuguese. Another difference in the form of conquest between the Qing and Portuguese empire’s lays in their specific use of either superior naval technology that the Portuguese held, which could devastate merchant ships in the Indian Ocean or a powerful military army used by the Qing empire. However, both the methods the empires used for conquest shared the same type of aggressiveness involved in the force of arms relating to the Portuguese’s way of

Throughout the years many historians have compilated and examined why Indian people were so desperate to gain back their independence from the British Empire during their rule over India, from 1612 to 1947. The reasoning can most definitely be found as the British discriminated against Indian people as they believe that they were inferior; it is no surprise that Indian people fought so hard for their independence. Throughout the British Raj, they placed and put forward unbelievably racist acts and laws which discriminated against Indian people. Which of course led to Indians to rebel against the British rule and which the British reacted with causing massacres. Explaining the nationalistic many India’s felt during the British Raj.

The Rebellion started with blood shed at the garrison in Meerut, where every Englishmen who was found was killed. After which, they marched to Delhi and “placed themselves under the leadership of the impotent and bewildered Mogul Emperor Bahadur Shah.” (Historical Dictionary of the British Empire.) By June the only British-held outpost, Cawnpore, was cut off. On July 17th, it was ascertained that 200 European men, women and children were murdered the prior month in the upheaval at Cawnpore. Vengeance was quick and onerous: anyone who was suspected to be a mutineer was tied to a cannon and executed. “In Six months, the mutiny had been broken, and, within the next year, British power was restored.” (Historical Dictionary of the British Empire.) These rebellions would later be in the back of the minds of some Indian freedom fighters as the first stage of the fight for independence from British colonialism that lasted until 1947. (Sepoy Rebellion: 1857.)

Native troops, serving in Madras, Bengal and Bombay of which Bengal army was the largest by the time 1857. Due to the vast span of the Brtish territory large number of volunteeers were recruited in the Britsih army for security and protection of the company. The local natives were less expensive,better disciplained and healtheir than their Europeans soldiers. ] Also, native troops of diverse areas