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Current , already plagued by revolts for over five years, completely collapsed into a Free Indian Republic in the north, proclaimed in Calcutta, a Indian-alignedproclaimed in Rangoon, and the remnants of the British administration in Southern India, consisting of the former Raj itself,Ceylonand ...
The story was all over mainstream media here in UK this morning; the Wagner group mercenaries, the private army that defeated the forces of His Excellency, Genealissimo Vobblyvoddymyr Bellendskyyy, President for life of The Whole World at the siege of Bakhmut had rebelled against the Putin...
Based on the sixth season Dad's Army episode 'The Deadly Attachment', it starred Cliff Norton as the Captain Mainwaring character (Captain Nick Rosatti here) and Lou Jacobi as the surrogate Sgt Wilson, Sgt Max Raskin. Despite the script being a mostly word-for-word retread, it's a dispir...
The Indian army was also extensively reorganized. Another significant result of the mutiny was the beginning of the policy of consultation with Indians. The Legislative Council of 1853 had contained only Europeans and had arrogantly behaved as if it were a full-fledged parliament. It was widely ...
Usually, however, it provided about half of British India’s gross annual revenue, or roughly the money needed to support the army. The second most lucrative source of revenue at that time was the government’s continued monopoly over the flourishing opium trade to China; the third was the ...
Usually, however, it provided about half of British India’s gross annual revenue, or roughly the money needed to support the army. The second most lucrative source of revenue at that time was the government’s continued monopoly over the flourishing opium trade to China; the third was the ...
Edward Law, earl of Ellenborough was a British governor-general of India (1842–44), who also served four times as president of the Board of Control for India and was first lord of the British Admiralty. He was recalled from India for being out of contro
Flogging in the Indian army was also abolished, long before it ended in the British army.Legacy Bentinck left India in March 1835 and returned to England, where he refused a peerage and was again elected to the House of Commons. He died in Paris in 1839. It has been argued that the ...