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Why Indian Sepoys had preferred to enlist in the armies of the East India Company, between the 17th-18th century.

In the 17th century, monthly payments made service in the Bengal army a great attraction.
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And it took a mutiny to change policing: Why after the Mutiny of 1857, the old Kotwali system was replaced.

A vintage photo from 1900, and why policing changed in British India, from the Kotwali system of the Mughals.
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How the Bengal army came to be an army of robust Sepoys.

Delving into the fascination of populating the Bengal army with impressive Prussian type native Sepoys.
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The death of Charlotte Chambers during the Mutiny of 1857.

During the mutiny of 1857 the gruesome and ritualistic murder of Charlotte Chambers was a rallying call.
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Good journalism. But instigating journalism.

An illustration that beautifully presents the brutality of 1857, and how 18th century Journalism used it to evoke pathos.
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The loyal camel trooper of the British Indian army.

A photo from January 1857 shows a mounted Camel Trooper, possibly of the Punjab Irregulars.
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John Murray and his photo of the infamous well of Bibighar in Cawnpore.

One of the earliest photos of the infamous well of Bibighar in Cawnpore, British India.
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Once upon a moonlit square: A photo of Chandni Chowk in Old Delhi by Felice Beato, 1857.

A Felice Beato photo reveals what Chandi Chowk in old Delhi was like in 1858.
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Tampon TN Gas Masks: Inspection at Argonne.

A photo from 1916 reveals a line of French soldiers wearing the Tampon TN gas mask.
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Training in progress: A photo of Vaughan’s 58th Rifles by Charles Girdwood.

A photographer who rebranded the image of Indian soldiers, after the Sepoy Mutiny of 1857.
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Gas Masks: What can harm me, can harm my dog too.

A photo from 1916 shows a French soldier and his canine companion wearing gas masks.
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Woof goes the whistle: How man’s best friend, the Dog, also fought by his side in World War I.

A dog train in Brzezany, Galicia, Austria 1916.
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Do you hear a plane coming? The Type 90 Sound Locator.

Japanese emperor Hirohito inspects the Type 90 sound locator in 1930.
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British allies, sketched and coloured for 40 guineas. By war artist Crimean Simpson.

A colored lithograph depicts troops of native allies of the British, 1800s.
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Churchill weds Roosevelt: Atlantic Superpower Summit and the creation of the Atlantic Charter, 1941.

Franklin D Roosevelt and Winston Churchill attends Sunday Service on board the HMS Prince of Wales, 1941
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Wasn’t it John Duncan Spaeth who said it?

Origin of the phrase the sun never sets on the British empire and its witty rejoinder.
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