sepoy

• A jawan -- sepoy Chiba of One Assam Regiment -- was killed in the gunbattle which started this morning and was continuing till tonight, they said adding that the infiltration bid by militants followed heavy cross-border firing on Indian positions along LoC since yesterday. —  Zee News : India National
• Mangal Pandey was a sepoy, an Indian soldier in the army of the East India Company. —  Film | guardian.co.uk
• We had several sepoy regiments, and the French general, in order to inspire the colonial troops with contempt for them, publicly promised that whoever should capture a sepoy should have him for a slave; but the militia appear to have thought that by so doing they might possibly catch a Tartar, for not a sepoy was made prisoner I made some satisfactory sales at Bourbon, and as soon as the ship was repaired she followed the men-of-war to the Isle of France. —  James Braithwaite, the Supercargo The Story of his Adventures Ashore and Afloat
• You look like a sepoy chief. —  Gil the Gunner The Youngest Officer in the East
• One sepoy was stabbed to the heart by a fanatic, who rushed at his bayonet and, pushing himself along, fell dead as he struck his fatal blow Things were looking very bad. —  Through Three Campaigns A Story of Chitral, Tirah and Ashanti

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