A sepoy was a soldier from which country?
Sepoy derived from the Persian word () meaning "infantry soldier" in the Mughal Empire. In the Ottoman Empire the term was used to refer to cavalry troopers. In its most common application, "sepoy" was the term used in the British Indian Army, and earlier in that of the British East India Company, for an infantry private (a cavalry trooper was a ). The term "sepoy" came into use in the forces of the British East India Company in the eighteenth century, where it was one of many, such as "peons", "gentoos", "mestees" and "topasses" used for various categories of native soldier.
Blowing from a gun court martial, and do not, therefore, record deaths as occurring during battle or during informal executions or massacres. Several British were convinced that the sepoy insurgents had blown British women from guns. A specific case, mentioned by several sources, concerns that of Mr. and Mrs. Birch, Mrs. Eckford and Mrs. Defontaine, all of whom were said to have been blown from guns at Fatehgarh. The skull of an Indian soldier blown from a gun was found in a British pub and is the subject of the book, "The Skull of Alum Bheg: The Life and Death of a Rebel of