This Type of Bullet Caused an Entire Uprising!
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The Sepoy Uprising, which took place in India in 1857 - 58, is seen as one of the most shocking insurrections to take place against a colonial power during the 19th century. Although the uprising was ultimately unsuccessful, it fundamentally changed the nature of British rule in the subcontinent and is sometimes known, in India, as the First War of Independence.
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Sources:
Dalrymple, W. 2020. ANARCHY: the relentless rise of the east india company. [S.l.]: BLOOMSBURY PUBLISHING.
David, S. 2003. The Indian Mutiny 1857. London: Penguin.
Jerosch, R., & Turner, J. A. .2007. The Rani of Jhansi: Rebel against will : a biography of the legendary Indian freedom fighter in the mutiny of 1857-1858. Delhi: Aakar.
Mount, F. 2016. The tears of the Rajas: mutiny, money and marriage in India 1805-1905. London: Simon & Schuster
Agrawal, M. G. 2008. Freedom fighters of India (in four volumes). Delhi: Isha Books.
The phrase to "bite the bullet" is said to have evolved from the British expression "to bite the cartridge" referring to the reloading method of the new Pattern 1853 Enfield rifled musket during the Sepoy Mutiny of 1857.
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Second
Hi simple history
Interesting
Ak-47 and Horten 229 video Please?
**Shoots himself point blank and doesn't die, gets arrested and is sentenced to death**
Robespierre: First time?
Imagine the doctor that had to cure his wound just to see him being executed a few time later. I would be confused and pissed
Robespierre was a tyrant, but "Sir Mangal Pandey" was a freedom fighter...
And how did that work out for the Thermidoreans again??? They would shortly be deposed by napoleon.
@@natedorney7032 chop chop chop chop chop chop chop!
@@nashooo5903
Ohhh nooooo!
"Tries to kill himself, failed, arrested, sentenced to death" poor guy.
YES , but he is a very respected person in India .... A brave guy . He was looking furiously at the officers while he was about to be hanged .....
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I mean... he also tried to kill multiple other people...
@@paveldaman1820 no !!! he did that because many Indians were killed by his officers !!! he was furious !!! so he did that !!
@@sangeethasivaraja7043 pretty sure it's common to stare angrily at someone who's about to hang ya
Me: “So who were the good guys?”
History: “No.”
We dont do that here
The indians
that can be said for any war
History in a nutshell
The rebel soilders were the good guys, its pretty obivious
You missed one the most important points that led to the revolt of 1857 , the "doctrine of lapse"
Which is???
@@kenfox22 A policy of the British empire where if any king of the many kingdoms that existed during that time did not have a male heir, the right of the family to rule "lapsed" and the kingdom was to become part of British India. One such kingdom was Jhansi. The queen of Jhansi(mentioned in the video) with her troops joined the rebellion. There were other policies too which were just excuses to dethrone the ruler and annex their kingdom.
@@Kaomei21 yes
What about paramountcy ?
And subsidiary alliance
I immediately get a flashback to my Age of Empires III: Asian Dynasties Indian Campaign
True xD
Same
Lieutenant Nanib!
Wait did you not kill everyone because I did and did not have that problem
Same I got flash backs of rise of nations
“Gurkhas and Sikhs remained loyal”
Close call, British Empire O_O
Ycey Narrates By sikh, here it means Punjabis .The sikhs in central and other parts of north India took part in the rebellion.
That's because British didn't trust Hindus or Muslims after the mutiny. After the mutiny, the power of India was given to Queen Victoria and the British Army recruited many soldiers who were mainly Sikhs, Gurkha, and Rajput.
Eyyy I am from Darjeeling
@@mannanmorvi1806 nope British used to trust Rajputs, jats, dogras and grahwalis all of them were Hindus just different cultures. British used to trust only on martial race and people from north India which used to be tall, fair and all that
Hahaha jokes on you they don't make nothing, stop spreading indian propaganda
Age of Empires 3 - The Asian Dynasties, the Indian campaign.
i remember destroying the last fort with only a dude with a saber because of minimun range
Colonel Edwardson was really mean
@@gameplaysuffering1620 legendary dude
I'm waiting for this
The animation style is giving me Adventure Quest flashbacks.
Ong
Battle on.com was my thing
@@justinroman8023 Right? I get that. I liked both AQ and AQW.
You triggered a deep, deep memory
Y'all are aware there's AQ3D now for both mobile and PC. They've done a good job, but the animation is different from AQ and Dragonfable.
But yeah, 'Blade of Awe' level flashbacks.
Imagine Amazon having the ability to wage war.
Oh god
It’s against my religion to have computers operating on MacOS
Well Amazon have to fight Coca-Cola and Pepsi....... not to mention other brand.....
@Your Overlord
Let’s find out who tf asked
Noone qould steal packages from doors ever again. They wpuld yave to face a terminator army big enough to conquer the galaxy
“Tried to kill himself, failed, arrested, and sentenced to death.” task failed successfully
your pfp makes me cringe
I mean did someone from your country die a martyr
@cubix this is an insult to every patriotic Indian
Yeah.... Failed. 😑😑😑
Mission Failed! We'll get them next time!
Sepoys: “You Insult our religious customs in our face after recently taking over India and expect us NOT to revolt!? THINK EAST INDIA COMPANY! THINK!”
So it's a rumour so I am confused
What’s another 100 years? I can still make another country
@@restrom6932 it wasn't a rumor. They did it on purpose to show their "worth" before their white masters.
@@trulytrulyawesome1051 No, it was just cheaper. The company would've used crow fat or sheep fat if it were cheaper but it wasn't.
I think they didn't care much about Indian... As they think they r more superior and more powerful thus the idea of revolt from indians might have never came in their mind. The point is they think indian r their slaves they can do whatever they want.
1:07 the sponsoring ends here
How is your Hetzer doing?
@@kevinbabu8919 good
When the 2 main religions have just 2 simple things that are holy, and you manage to offend both in one fell swoop
Britain, not caring about other cultures since day one.
And still. Manages to suppress them 😂😂😂😂
In fact the bullets didn't actually have beef or pork on them, it just tasted like it
@@thewanderinggamer2410 it was actually wax and rumours made people think it was greased in pork or beef fat
@@thewanderinggamer2410 often you might not realise something like a sound or taste but once someone says it you begin to hear it or taste it
When your history teacher assigns you an essay on stuff hes never even mentioned
LMAOOO YES
1:32 Not "sometimes". Always.
Yup
"Many people were killed and thrown down a well"
Many Sikh felt that. And their loyalty has now doubled
Yes he died from stroke sorry for misinformation I mistook this guy en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Michael_O%27Dwyer
@@gurbajsingh8283 so your birthday is special
@@gurbajsingh8283 no dude, you must be mistaken. Dyer was never assassinated, he died in 1927, 62 years old, relieved from his duty in India. He died of cerebral haemorrhage and arteriosclerosis, had suffered strokes during the last few years.
The one who was assassinated was the Lieutenant-Governer of Punjab, Michael O'Dwyer, who called the massacre "correct". He was assassinated by Sardar Udham Singh in 1940.
@@panzerjagertigerpelefant HE WAS KILLED BY SOME GREAT INDIAN
@@bitcoin8234 ...not Dyer, he mean O'Dwyer, read the entirety of the comment, and stop using caps.
When you manage to offend two religions that are completely the opposite of each other...
Unity intensifies
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At the same time you mean
@@arhumzia4087 unity huh? Lol it only benefited Britishers as majority of Hindus dont wanted to fight side by side with muslims n hence supported british or stayed neutral. If hindus had gotten unified history would hv been more bloodier(not necessarily different)
@@abhyudaysinghparmar6055 Muslims couldn't have killed inosent because that's against their religion.
According to Jules Verne Prince Dakkar aka Captain Nemo started on his quest for revenge following the loss of both his kingdom and family during the Sepoy Rebellion. It’s what gave him his hatred of imperialism and caused him to build the Nautilus.
The ironic thing is that the rebels had to use the Endfield rifles and bullets, and probably continued biting them
They used the old stock. Many kings had French trend army and ammunitions.
No they were using French weapons
either way, it would've been using heresy to destroy the heresy
Actually no, one of the reasons why the rebels were not successful was because the the weapons they used were swords and lathis(sticks). Guns used were the old ones.
The cartridge wasn't the only problem. Sure it acted as the spark of the revolt, but the oppressive policies of the East India Company was the reason why the revolt had immense support and reached extensively to many parts of the subcontinent.
The major reason was the complete and wanton destruction of the traditional economic system that existed in India by the English. This led to impoverishment of farmers, artisans and handicraftsmen. Also the land revenue tax and policies were greatly inequitable and vexatious. Corruption was rampant in the Company's ranks.
This is what happens when one consults the colonialist side when describing colonized people's history. He managed to convey the East India Company had natural rights to India and supported by Indians and Indian freedom fighters were 'rebels' when even the British Imperial rule was not even there to justify calling these local leaders rebels! The East India company had by then precipitated 3 large scale famine in occupied territory when they forced Bengali farmers to plant only 'Blue' instead of food. I have reported the video for slandering our freedom fighters with misinformation like this due to his racism and perceived inferiority of us
Dude, even your people know about their inferiority. Look at how white the skin is of the actors in Indian commercials and movies.
@@scottanno8861 Where do you think we got the idea from? Certainly not from ourselves :)
@@priyakumari6933 Everyone has their stories to tell. Ofcourse it is a complicated topic, but look at the name of the channel. It's called Simple History. Btw, where did he slander any freedom fighters?Time stamp it if you can.
Yes, you are right but this was the last straw..
I am an Indian, the sepoy mutiny was in our history book in high school, didn't know its significance back then. Great narration, literally got chills down my spine as i was watching this especially because i am from Bengal.
Bengal infantry was mostly made up of purbaiyas - UP and Biharis - you can check the names of the soldiers
Respect my fellow Indian brother long live the British empire 🇬🇧🇮🇳
@@manofthepeople4663 The British Empire did not live long
We hate british empire
They stolen our kohinoor 😠 And oppressed us
Inquilab zindabad
@Arya we don't hate British people
We hate British empire mr
@Arya Are you conscious, even? We love British people. Edit that we and make it "I". Nobody is that sick here.
I'd be happy if you'd make a video on "JALLIANWALA BHAG " incident . It's something the entire world should know . It's not the worst but one of the worst for sure for what happened to us .
Not the worst🤨
@@abhiramas2004 worse
It was a massacre
It was caused by one guy, not commanded by the government
Not even close. Cawnpore was way worse
British looted almost 40 Trillion$ from India.
Indians fought against Indians .
Is this loyalty ???
U can't blame ancestor
U cant blame them honestly they were also helpless
Indians didn't fought against indians . It was britshers who made Indians fight against each other
@@mrcool2107 and why were they so convincing? Because the anti-british side, though having good intentions, were not exactly appealing. The caste system and the structure of the Mughal empire were some things some Indians did not like.
Bullshat made up by endians
Damn. That Ancient Roman absolutely DESTROYED that popcorn and hot dog.
Glizzy soldier
Hello colonel carrot
When a stream service gets named after a person your ancestors killed😬
@Gods Bloody Hammer i cant still find who tf asked
@@sharonb3939 Major*
In Vietnam, we also learn about this Uprising in history class. Didn't know it would be mentioned in this channel at all! Great job guys!
And in India too we are taught about history of Vietnam .
One can learn so much from a small country like Vietnam. I salute all vietnamese monks who stood against European Christian missionaries in south Vietnam for protecting dharma and i salute all your people who always fought for their rights.
@@pritsingh9766 What's the dharma for being a mostly atheist state and not recognizing Hinduism as a official faith?
You too can learn to lose your soul just like the majority of the Vietnamese.
Thebigredsnake doesn’t mean we don’t have a soul, we follow our family tradition of remember our past family lines.
This is what happens when one consults the colonialist side when describing colonized people's history. He managed to convey the East India Company had natural rights to India and supported by Indians and Indian freedom fighters were 'rebels' when even the British Imperial rule was not even there to justify calling these local leaders rebels! The East India company had by then precipitated 3 large scale famine in occupied territory when they forced Bengali farmers to plant only 'Blue' instead of food. I have reported the video for slandering our freedom fighters with misinformation like this due to his racism and perceived inferiority of us
Priya Kumari Did you watch the same clip that I did? At no point does the narrator say or imply that the East India Trading company had any natural rights to India, the did state that the signed an agreement that meant they could employ mercenaries. They’ve also not slander any of the Indian freedom fighters, they gave a balanced account of historical events and unfortunately both the British armed forces and the Indian freedom fighters committed what these days would be called war crimes.
as a bengali citizen. this is unusually good, i have seen nobody say it as good as u did
Most soldiers of Bengal regiment are not from Bengal. Most of them are Purabhiya Rajput, Brahmins, Bhumihars and Yadav of UP & Bihar. Mangal Pandey was from Ballia, UP
@@GAUTAMSINGH-qw7wq Yes the mutiny was stared by the Eastern UP and Bihari soldiers, This is why Britain destroyed Bihar and turned it into a backwater shithole
@@sourabhdhanuka2252 Bengal is more shithole than UP.
@@GAUTAMSINGH-qw7wq I said that Eastern UP and Bihar were shithole because they were punished for their involvement in the revolt by the British government. Bengal was the most industrial state of India, Kolkata was called the Paris of the East but it was destroyed by the policies of Congress and Communist Governments.
@@GAUTAMSINGH-qw7wq Nice joke! Just remember, 90% of all revolutionaries were from Bengal. And also, the British feared Bengal so much that they partitioned it(divide and rule policy). And also, Bengal accounted for 12% of the world economy bro! Just before writing anything in the comment section, make sure you research a bit!
Vande matram we Indians are proud of our Soldiers who dead fighting for the great nation.
Jai shri Ram.
Jai Bharat.
Failure of a nation. Lives gone in vain.
@@orionfernandes4587 Why you always spread hate about India in every video?
@@warchariot1930 Because India’s huge pride and ego must be removed so that our country can develop
@@orionfernandes4587 So that's why you spread hate? You aren't even from India, Are you? You said to me that you don't live in India anymore and went to another country. So Don't lie that You are from India now, You are probably a troll.
Though You are right Indians have high ego and pride which must be removed.
Indian 1: "What does your cartridge taste like?"
Indian 2: "Tastes like chicken."
British all: tastes like British blood
I would like to have a lamb curry flavoured bullet please
Haha
Indian 2: "Tastes like beef"
Indian 1: "HOW WOULD YOU KNOW!?!"
@sudeep sengupta If the Normans lost had lost at Hastings, the influence of French speaking royals would not have massively corrupted the Low German spoken by the Angles and Saxons. English would have been a likely more coherent language blended of Old Low German, Gaelic, and Danish.
I see a new Assassin's Creed game concept.
👀
There’s already an Assassin’s Creed game based on this era of time....
@@theorganizer1273 There is? Which one is it?
@@daskriegsman7013 No there isn't. There's a game set during the final decade of the Sikh Empire, AC Chronicles India
They should’ve made it a long time agao
8:45
Tbh that sounds like a better way to go than most other execution methods at the time like hanging, beheading, or firing squad. At least its real quick
Not for religous folks you can't go to the afterlife without you're carcuss.
@@Demicleas carcass and your. Sorry
That was the immediate cause of the uprising. There was also an underlying dissatisfaction against the british because of the atrocities faced by Indians..also most Hindus at that time and even today are vegetarians and consider Cow holy. This is not just any reason but a big valid reason for sepoy mutiny.
According to many accounts, this was NOT the cause, but the trigger for rising - thus causing the revolution before the planned date. If you look at the planning, the scale, the involvement etc. of the revolution, you'll find it acceptable that the revolution was planned years in advance. According to the accounts of Veer Savarkar in his book The First War of Indian Independence 1857, the last three years were just the phase of communication and preparation. 30th May was chosen as the date of uprising. But the circumstances caused due to cartridge issue led to an immature uprising on 10th May
Most hindus were not vegeterians back then and they certainly are not today. And Hindus not eating beef is a myth too. Lots of Hindus eat beef. Its the so called upper caste Hindus who are vegeterians and have issue with beef.
Forceful integration of the Awadh state into the British Empire was also one of the reasons why the rebellion spread like fire in the area around Uttar Pradesh. The four major centres of the rebellion (Kanpur, Meerut, Jhansi and Lucknow) are all in UP.
The most accurate depiction of the Sepoy Mutiny i have heard in my entire life. As I am an Indian I never heard about the atrocities performed by the Sepoys, killing women and children but its true. This video was perfectly balanced both on Indian as well as British side. Being an indian we are always told about the killings done by the Britishers but never told about the brutality of the sepoys. This video cleary states what a great channel Simple History is. Thank Simple History for this video.
Umm, check your history mate. I think you forgot take some history classes. The sepoys didn’t kill as much as this video is portraying although it is the most despicable offence, no question there. What they aren't showing is the so called 'humbled' british rule that killed millions of Indians before the Mutiny.
@@taseenrajshahi809 liar. the sepoys were evil
@@taseenrajshahi809 eh m8 the sepoys did kill a lot, the whole mutiny was a bloody affair, both indians and the british had heavy casualties
@@pranavvaishnave7648 ah, according to that logic mentally unstable criminals are completely innocent since mental issues are usually caused by childhood trauma.....
that's how war goes, both sides slaughter and rape civilians.
The most intense Simple History Episode of 2020 so far.
Such is the history of our independence.
Gods Bloody Hammer i admit that was a good troll
@Gods Bloody Hammer god doesn't exist
Dreadlord The knight *tips fedora*
@@LarpVonUngern-Sternberg k
This was one of the reason (in some documents its even mentioned as hoax), most prominent reason were 'Doctrine of lapse', 'widow marriage', Economic policies, several charter acts, drain of wealth, policies with landlords, carrot and stick policies with farmers.
*how a rumor caused a revolt
Powder and ball was sealed with wax not animal tallow as tallow was ludicrously flammable not the kind of thing you want to seal gunpowder with.
It fuelled the revolt because the Indians were already fed up
I wonder how many of the bullets were actually used by the rebels
underrated comment
underrated
Absolutely god awfully underrated
Underrated comment section.
Epically underrated content
I always found quite fascinating how conflicts change their name according to the different points of view. For the British it is the Sepoy Mutiny, for the Indians it's the First War or Independence.
Well wh don't you wikipedia the 2 palayakarars wars and vellore mutiny of 1906
India tries to make this war propaganda.
In reality, it's the same as the China-Boxer rebellion (and the fall of Burma's last dynasty) which a stupid ruler made a grave mistake.
Those locals will foreigner as barbaric. And want to keep their old outdated value.
The Ruler who lived their entire life in comfort never knew the terror of progress. When their profits were reduced, these people would stupidly wake up an unwinnable war on their own.
Interestingly, I had also observed the same thing for the American war of 1861-65. There, Northerners call it 'Civil War' because, according to them CSA was a part of the USA. South calls it the 'war of Northern aggression' because Lincoln raised an Army to invade CSA. The West, however, calls it 'a little misunderstanding between states'
i am an Indian, but I disagree on the war being termed as a war of Independence as the whole country was not completely united, for example, the Madras Armies and the ones who took the sides of the British etc. We even had like a debate in our high school regarding this, people do have different opinions Haha.
@@babyyoda1046 True that the entire geographical Indian subcontinent of today did not participate, but most of it did. And that was for the first time. Moreover, let's add one more perspective to it: It was the first time that Indians were fighting for India. What I mean to state is Muslims in Kanpur were ok with the rule of Shrimant Nana Sahib, Hindus of Oudh were fighting for their Muslim Nawab. And the entire country, irrespective of their religion, fought for the rule of Bahadur Shah Zafar. Entire India broadly wanted to be ruled by Indians, no matter who they are. That is why it was India's war of independence
3:46 Can't help but notice the trainee never stows his ramrod properly. I have this image of flying through the air and him getting a sheepish look on his face...
I remember learning about this from the indian campaign of Age of empires 3
This is one of those semi-known conflicts that deserves more attention.
There is always something to learn from all wars.
Check out a book called, "Flashman and the Great Game" its a historical fiction book that gives a first hand account of most of the events in this video.
It wouldn’t because it wasn’t an uprising against Communism or N@zis.
It was against British so obviously.
If a pond full of fishes are fighting among themselves it means the British were there
An old joke
Anish Adamane sounds about right lol
Sounds about white.
This might be how the British now came to love fish and chips
Every white colonist i would say
@Suspicious Ned ua-cam.com/video/f7CW7S0zxv4/v-deo.html
The cartridges did not have to be bitten. There was a new platoon drill introduced which showed how the cartridges could be torn instead. However, the rumour of the fat persisted. It is also necessary to note a difference between the balled and unballed cartridges. This a nice introduction to a very complicated issue. It must also be remembered that when the mutiny started, the Indians used the cartridges they had insisted they wouldn't use so it is a really necessary to look into history a bit deeper than just obvious issues. The blowing from guns was not a British invention - that was taken from the Mughals and it was not a common form of punishment but indiscriminate hanging was. The uprising in Lucknow was in May, many mutineers dispersed and after the Battle of Chinhat on the 30th of June, the Siege of Lucknow started and was first reinforced by Havelock and then relived by Colin Campbell in November. In Jhansi the British had been promised safe passage but were murdered in a garden outside the fort. They had taken refuge in the Fort and not killed in it.
People in comments talking about how Britain didn't care about foreign cultures:
*ignores uniforms created to catere to non-Christian Faiths*
Yes, that completly makes up for all the theft and murder the bitish caused in their colonies!
@@Resident-of-Pluto At that time the British army was the most diverse military force in the world. It could have been so much worse. Imagine what would have happened if the Spanish ruled the world instead of the British. It would have been like what happened at Hispaniola expect world wide. This is what i dont understand when people trash the British empire. If they didn't do it, Someone else would have. And they would have done it worse. And your also somewhat correct. They did cause theft and murder because other empires killed thousands in order to own what the British empire had created.
PS learn to spell.
@Tejas Misra
Apart from the Spanish. Look up Hispaniola. Because of the Spanish there are no natives of Hispaniola left. Also that latin term you threw in my face to make yourself look intellectual. Originated from a 17th French bishop who used it to insult the country his nation was at war with. Historical Term/Quote mining wont help you here.
@M B Name any civilisation that didn't expand by not conquering another. Just because colonialism is attached to 15th and 19th century European empires. Doesn't mean those methods weren't used by other civilisations. I also can't help bt notice you haven't presented a counter argument, just attacked mine. Pretty pathetic.
Wow deleted their comments. How stunning and brave.
moral of the story:
if you're gonna take over a country,
don't interfere with their customs.
Maybe just don't take over the country if your culture is incompatible with theirs or at least try really hard to indoctrinate and change the culture
@@morganseaman4557 well sir that's simply not possible
@@adityaawasthi7221 And that is why Colonialism isn't justified and was doomed to fail.
@Rick K no buddy I am a Indian and here the people of tibbet are refuges in millions .......they peacefully enjoy and celebrate their festivals and cultures ......they are keeping their culture alive here ....
6 foot black man
"Try really hard to indoctrinate and change the culture"
Apparently you did not pay attention to the video
Imagine being a normal soldier named Mangal pandey And cause Revolt against British putting an end to The biggest Company ever i.e East India company.
Just coz of a bullet
*A GODDAMNED BULLET*
@@animq4ionboi.153 The bullet was just a spark, the powder was the British cruelty.
Im pretty sure the Dutch east India company was the biggest followed by the east India company.
@Gods Bloody Hammer yo wtf r u on about....didn't india literally fought a war to give bangla independence
@Gods Bloody Hammer আশমানি কিতাবের বাঁজা কাংলু, পুলিশ গিয়ে মেজরকে ঝাঁঝরা করে দেয় তবু মুখে বুলি
This is video is of great interest for me. I am from a town called Lucknow and it was named after Lucknow, India. As you come into town, the sign states "Welcome to Lucknow" and then states "A Sepoy Town". The town was settled by Scottish soldiers that fought in the Battle of Lucknow. Many of the street names are named for Generals including one named in the video... Havelock. Others are Outram and Campbell (the main street of the town).
I'm assuming you're from Ontario..
I've seen it said before that it was remarkable how Britain held an empire together with as few of their own people that they sent into it. I learned in greater detail about the origins of the Hudson's Bay Company. For a long time, it consisted only of several trading posts along the shore of the bay, and the natives brought the furs to them from far and wide. Only after the Montreal-based fur business started sending Frenchmen into the hinterlands to gather furs did they start having more than just a few people staffing a few posts.
A fun case of everyone committing war crimes on everyone else
Business as usual
Yes.
I honestly don't know if there were any war crimes laws at the time XD
@Владимир Новиков Exactly
@@danielbrown9352 they're only warcrimes now if you lose the war anyway
What I find funny is that whenever a simple History video comes out my teachers teach about the subject
Spooky :)
@@Simplehistory coincidence ? I think not !
@Adolf Hitler lol u r leaving a comment in every History videos ...... i know you bro u leave a comment in anything related to history WW2 .
@Adolf Hitler BTW how did u manage to push through the Ardennes ? and how in the world you are still a mystery ?
@Adolf Hitler Hello fellow leader.
I love how they included the 42nd regiment of foot! I LOVE THE ACCURACY!!!!
10:34 that was a meow.
As an Indian, most of us actually accept the fact that we were and still are our biggest enemy.
Agreed.
same here in brazil
same in america, but you Indians with your Microsoft tech support make a close 3rd.
aren't we all
True
I remember this from age of empires 3, Asian dynasties.
I still play as indian and a few factions in skirmish and play the campaign of the Asian Dynasties.
Gods Bloody Hammer again, who tf asked.
@marios gianopoulos οι Έλληνες είναι παντού φαίνεται
Yeaa
@@tony_greece8065 βέβαια
5:34- other regiments remained loyal to British but the purbaiyas of UP , bihar who filled or made up majority of Bengal regiment had their home lands and it's social structure and economic system and businesses utterly destroyed by the British. Even today East UP and bihar Haven't recovered from that destruction of British reprisal. Being the most backward in India .. Even Hindu religious institutions and temples were greatly destroyed. People were broken beyond repair - wealth and prosperity destroyed beyond any attempt of recovery.
But very few people talk about this and this is rarely researched.
In my city there is place known as Residency where more than 3000 Britishers were killied by Sepoys in 1857 Revolt.
Good 👍
Lucknow?
this particular mutiny happened right in my hometown, Barrackpore (Barracks Town) West Bengal......
Love from India
I am also from Bengal
Me from Baranagar
I'm from Lucknow where the 3rd assault took place.
I am from MEERUT 🔥
I am from surat where the brits first came in india for the first time ever..... That beach today is onown as dumas beach and is second most haunted place in india
This is absolutely the most intense and most action-packed simple history video ever. I actually enjoyed watching the history unfold.
One can't help but laugh whenever one of these stories involves someone trying to commit suicide to avoid jail time or torture, but then they're sentenced to death.
Also, God damn, i can't even begin to imagine how "death by cannonball through your chest" must've been like, especially point blank like that.
Relatively instant ad the head and torso are just obliterated
Horrific to see tho
The fear when its ur turn and they are loading up the canon is more scary than how much it would pain
It would hurt for about 0.0000001 seconds since after that you will be dead......
Salute to Mangal Pandey that he arose from religion and fought for a united India and for the freedom. 🇮🇳
Captain: ready your weapons! FIRE!
Soldiers: we can’t
Captain: what? Why?
Soldiers: we ate the bullets
*that would be painful*
E
Yum yum
Clayton Pactol puts the “ow” in gunpowder
Aren't bullets made out of lead?
We Wish to feature about the Spanish Civil War
And the long-forgotten Pyrenees line.
Yesss
there was even a movie on this. Magal Pandey. one of the best Bollywood movie I've ever watched
intro: A shogun, a Roman, a US Army, a knight and a Vietnam war era US army on a small cinema
pretty much very cool
Country exist
Britain: it's real free estate
*tribal country
@@edp-xo1on Britain in the past too, lol pretty much every one
India: I'm about to end this British's whole career
@@edp-xo1on
It was pretty advanced for it's age... it just had been through a civil war which allowed British to sweep in.
@@christianramirez6578 and how u gonna do that jackass?
Mughal Empire *dies out* East India company: looks like I’m in charge now.
Actually the last mughals were corrupt as hecck
@@goblincleaver_mshm.9751 wherever cracks appeared, Europeans followed
*Britain sees the fading mughals*: It's not like those natives know enough to form a lasting Empire. I'll show them how It's done.
@@miguelmontenegro3520 but seriously the British empire faded rather quickly although very stretched and apparently never again as it's not a civilisation on its own like india or china
@Gods Bloody Hammer You mad bro ? The British used to use the word India for the Indian subcontinent since 17th century . A reason why Christopher Columbus mistook America for India and named the natives Red Indians .
After this incident, India was no longer under the control of the East India Company, which was dissolved in 1874. Control of India passed to the British crown. It would be 90 years after this incident that India became independent.
I learned this from playing Age of Empires III.
I feel like the animations (at least the background) have gotten way better this month
Next ••Jallianwala Bagh massacre and relation to rudyard kipling fund
@Gods Bloody Hammer still cant find who tf asked mate
@Harveer Singh what about it?
Indira Gandhi Plus general a$$inatiedead. Plus who told thoese Khalistani te₹₹orist to get influenced by isi and make golden temple and visitors ho$tage. This is a past thing now. Lots of people in J@il only because of that plus Indian government payment compensation to this date (and it increased in modi period)
Even SAS team was there in that time. Situation was critical.
@@suvamkumarsarangi6593 jallianwala bagh is not an influential event as compared to other things he should make videos about like the spanish civil war
@@danielsteger8456 when they will run out of idea they will do.
@suburben yobbo I just want to tell that mindset of Rudyard Kipling for Gen. Doyer.
It is a fact that will never change.
This was an intense Simple History lesson, geez!
Great video. Please allow me to include the following:
What is not included is accurate information of why Jhansi took part in the rebellion. Rani Laxmibai did not have a male heir for the throne of Jhansi. Under the British Doctrine of Lapse, any kingdom without a male heir by blood would be taken over by company rule. The tradition at that time (also in European monarchy's ironically) was to appoint a male relative to be heir, which was done but found to be invalid per the doctrine of lapse, hence the english fabricated grounds for invasion. This is how many independent kingdoms fell without just reason to English rule. So cruel was the English subjugation of Jhansi, that yes not only was the male population murdered but there is clear reports of a systematic destruction of India's wealth of knowledge. At the time, Jhansi's royal library was renowned in India. The royalty of Jhansi had complied invaluable books and documents during their rule of the area. They employed an innumerable amount of learned scholars at this institution as well. It was truly a university. This structure was destroyed, these scholars murdered and all books and documents were deliberately thrown on the streets of Jhansi and set ablaze. Thus the recorded history (bhakri) of India continued to be destroyed, as seem with prior invasions.
The true history of the horrors seen during first the Islamic subjugation of India, then the British subjugation of India are not taught in India and seldom known.
Cause this is an animation of 13 minutes and the channels name is simple history :/
I never knew about this bullet or uprising before this, you taught me something
It was taught in our high school though, under Asian History.
I think these kind of topics are mostly discussed as part of Asian History in highschools in Asia, I guess (welp, that's the case here in my country) but for real these topics are fascinating
Strange concidering it is such a major historical event
@Laltluangliana Sailop mutiny refers to a group of people refusing to obey commands. This is exactly what happened here, therefore it is called a mutiny. Mutiny isn't derogatory, it's a term for a particular event.
It was in my 7th grade history syllabus .
Next Video: Battle of Rezang La 1962 where 120 Indians fought till the last man Last bullet Against 4000+ Chinese.
@Laltluangliana Sailop well, simple history did make an episode about the Tienmen Square Massacre. That's still monetized... Well, let's see...
@Laltluangliana Sailop Winnie The Pooh Xinping 😅😂
Then they all got killed tho lol Edit: replying to main comment, not comment above mine
@@pranavvaishnave7648 Pakistanis and Indians both had Automatic weapons.
In the 1962 Rezang La Case. Indian Army just were equiped with Lee Enfield bolt action rifles and just one MMG.
Chinese on the other hand had AK-56s. When The "Ahirs" ran out of ammunition they fought with Bayonets, when the blades broke they fought with Bare hands and Rocks.
@@Zom_Bie No, 12 of them survived. Actually they lost too much blood and passed out or they were too injured to fight. The Chinese refused to go foreward after seeing around 1400 of The Chinese being Killed. The Ahirs were the reason why Ladakh is still a part of India.
In the 1850s petroleum had not come into use. All lubricants were based on animal fats (lard) which at that time would normally be from domestic animals ie cattle and pigs. Whale fat when available was too valuable for use as lubricant. So it was correct that both Hindus and Mohammedan sepoys would find putting the cartridge in their mouths extremely offensive. ---Debashis Ray
I am an Indian.....my ancestors also participated in this war of 1857.....in India this war is not called "Mutiny" it is called as the first war of independence
Well it's disputed,some view it as a mere mutiny ,some see this as the first war of independence.
@@anuragpoddar8631 for brits it was mutiny for Indians it was war of independence, depends on you which side you wanna be at.
@@beautiful_sky111As an outsider this always confused me. While Indians refer to it as the first war of independence, how does this work when many regiments of the Indian Army today, Gorkha, Punjab, Madras, all stayed loyal to the British and fought the rebels? Are those regiments shunned even though they are still in service?
3:25
Pringles man serves for his country
He's doing his part!
This episode had some of the most amazing animations, can't wait to see how Simple History videos will look like months from now.
The fact that they did'nt tell us about British women and children being slughtered in history class makes us question about what massacres are being hidden,massacres by both sides.
Those are literally nothing as compared to the Indian casualties .
@@jayeshmarathe2744 Wait so if one person dies from one side it does'nt matter because the number of dead people on the other side is greater? Thats just dumb talk. Each and every live matters. They're not just numbers on paper. They're literal human lives
Well because history of both countries is full of propaganda as indian history highlights the massacres committed and British history highlights the development done by Britain
0:25 the Soldier on the couch has a worried look and i'm like chill out nobody is trying to kill you right now
Honorable way to heaven
Fun fact: The British denies this being "The First War of Indian Independence"....
@@leoslack6104 ,it did escalate to somewhat of a war
Doesn't really makes a difference to me as a Indian.
@Juni Post you mean the Koh-e-Noor diamond? Well, it now firmly sits in the crown of the British queen. At least that what I heard last time.
O ye all crown supporters!!! Get ur facts right. It wasn't just a mutiny. It was a revolt involving common people too
Isn't this technically just a workplace shooting since the East India Company was a private entity?
In India we need to study this....in our 8th standard..
But don’t take notes from this video. This is practically what the British believe to justify their tyrannic rule. Search about it in books and local articles For all the subcontinental nations.
@@taseenrajshahi809 Tell me, what in the video did they make up to "Justify" the British rule?
@@taseenrajshahi809 the video shows the atrocities both side committed, and was very well balanced. If fact, it seems like the British were more rageful with their actions so i don't know what you're going on about.
Why don't you take a hike at the real history lesseons of the incidents 'bro'. Wanna have a hint? The casualty ratio of Europeans and Indians is 3:400.
@@theanglo-lithuanian1768 1. Rumour of using cow or pig fats while it was truth and it was done to reduce cost.
Only numbering the European Casualities while the death ratio between Europeans and Indians would be 3:400 when excluding the death from the famine brought down by the british rule
After the Mutiny
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The British should have seasoned the bullet grease heavily with curry powder. The Indian soldiers wouldn't have had a problem with it.
Can you stop making a joke about a very serious topic? Your country didn't suffer evil European Colonism, so stop being a jackass. Have you suffered even one bit of what we have?
@@vaibhavsrivastva1253 dude its just a joke chill
I am indian btw and people who take jokes as jokes are more happy than people who get offended
@@sayonkundu7945 You may be right, but I chose to disagree.
@kaustabh y’all had guns and still lost
Mahrattas never gave up, even after the 3rd Anglo-Maratha War.
sorry mate but after Anglo maratha war, they lost their power.
@@niranjandesai6766 did I say, they were still ruling !
*Never Gave Up* meaning
1. Participation in 1857
2. Vasudev Balwant Phadke
3. Chapekar Brothers (Assassination of Rand)
4. Rajguru (Assassination of John Saunders)
5. Tilak
6. Veer Savarkar (he did give up)
7. Samyukt Maharashtra Revolt (after Brits left)
and maybe many more..
Jai Maharashtra 🚩
Vasudhaiva Kutumbakam 🌍🙏🏼
@@SawantSumeet strategic surrender.What's the point of having a futile death when you can accomplish much more after making a surrender for your people.
This is history which every Indian kid knows in detail. Thanks for sharing this important topic in history. Most non Indians think that it was Gandhi who single handedly took on the British and tend to overlook the sacrifices made by many freedom fighters who gave their life for an independent India.
@John Andrews yup
@Laltluangliana Sailop they all lost
3:20
Indians: Insulted over lower pay and lack of promotion from the British
Also Indians: Insulted over the British recruiting and giving jobs to the lower cast of Indian society
Orthodox religious practices and practitioners still present in India but very few in number ... This is the story from 19th century so it was very common than to follow the caste system
And Indeed the mutiny failed due to lack of coordination and superior British forces with latest weapons and instruments . The first war of independence just gave the direction of Indian nationalism to which India gain independence in 1947 .
The caste system was wired and complex (the 4 tier pyramid is a big simplification of the 4 most known castes) and often led to classism. Even now in India, there is still a small percentage dead set on following the system and forbidding friendship, marriage, and downright social interaction altogether based on caste. It was heavily ingrained in Indian society for a while and led to injustice and hypocrisy as you just pointed out.
Subtle British propaganda, hiring lower caste was going on for a while and has little to do with the rebellions.
@@julianhaddad1431 Without British rule modern India would not exist. Accept it.
Giving jobs? This is what you have been told? That's something new and out of records. The fact that I know is the so called Indians were recruited for proxy wars on behalf of the Brits and the Brits essentially made them pay taxes for their own jobs. Your history teacher might have been a delusional hag to say the least.
Interesting that in history books of the Sub-continet, this event is known as the War of Independance of 1857, yet in British history it's The Sepoy Mutiny. As if, standing up for your beliefs and freedom was audacious and some sort of crime.
I wonder, the British ruled us for almost 200 years and still we don't have a British accent🙂
Indian accent is believed originated from a Welsh Governor. So technically that's British.
Most of Britain’s former colonies have their own accents
@@nimay13 LMAO What! 😆 Indian accent is based on the vowel and consonant and phonetic sounds of Indian languages, mainly Sanskrit and its subset languages: Hindi, Marathi, Gujarati, Odiya, etc..
The colonial generation had that but it disappeared with that generation
Not 200 more like 150
In middle east there's a famous say:
When you see 2 fishes fighting each other in Mediterranean sea be sure Britian is behind it
(I can't translate well i sure ruined it xD)
As in "There's a possibility that British are behind it?"
@@sharilshahed6106 something like that my English is not good sorry
I've also heard something like: "The sun never sets on the British Empire because not even God trusts the British at night"
@@thunderbear0 better than most people Arabic, don't be hard on yourself, I understood
God save the Queen
"We're going to make concessions and interfere less"
*stations more troops and declares herself empress*
"Why is the bald man not eating?"
Incorrect.
There was far less interference in local customs and rule.
That meant tarrifs between the pre-unified Indian States- which Ghandi the racist & woman beater objected to.
Also more *British* troops were stationed there, but the number of Indian Troops in the Indian Army was reduced, so the total number of troops was actually around the same. After the Sepoy Mutiny the Bengal Army was basically abolished and broken up, most of its regiments disbanded, and their standards burned.
Afterwards Indian Army Brigades were comprised of two Indian Battalions and 1 British battalion. Contrary to popular belief, the Indian troops of the Indian Army were well trained, were taught to read, and though the commanders of the Battalion were white, 25 of the 36 officers in an Indian battalion were actually Indian, only 11 were white, those white officers being the CO, XO, the four Company commanders and a couple of platoon commanders, as well as a couple of the specialist. The supply officer and Doctor were often (though not always) white officers for example. All NCO's were Indian, and, as any good officer knows, the NCO's are the backbone of an army.
The rest of the Officers were Indians, all veterans (men of 20 or more years service), all came up through the ranks. White officers had a harsh 4 year language course with examinations that they *had* to pass before being allowed to take up position as a 2nd Lieutenant in an Indian Battalion. That included 2 years of Hindi, followed by a further two years of learning the language of the men of the Regiment they were to be posted to.
So being a soldier in the Indian Army was actually a good deal for Indians, especially those of lower Castes. They could advance by merit, were given an education, and, if things went well could even become officers.
Imagine a private company owning overseas territories. That would be like if Tesco or Walmart owned territories like Gibraltar or Puerto Rico today
They don't have right to keep a military and wage war, better example is rda in avatar
@@babla69420 true
Death by cannon. That is a messed up way to go.
*British Grenadiers starts playing in the distance*
That would have been the british army, the army in this video is the EIC army
@Gods Bloody Hammer India is a name given by British. Our country's name is Bharat and was united by Mauryan Empire under Chandragupta Maurya. Your Bangladesh recently got independence from Pakistan in 1971 war supported by Bharat and the USSR .And the uprising was first started in central India not in Bangladesh. Finally, how can someone who follow Arabians can claim to be an indigenous bengali? Benagli culture focus on Shaktism not on some desert jihad .
Gods Bloody Hammer it was called Hindustan
"Never doubt that a small group of thoughtful, committed, citizens can change the world. Indeed, it is the only thing that ever has."
--Margaret Mead
The only thing the rebellion did was get a lot of people killed for nothing
@@hydra8845 not really, EIC getting replace by British colonial rule using cheap indirect means to control their subjects using local rulers so there would be no next uprising and at the same time gave Indian people the ability to preserve their cultures and religions, so that's kinda like win-win situation for both side.
@@hydra8845 im neither Indian nor British and respect both peoples but I have to agree this is a counterproductive rebellion.
@@hydra8845 You have to give blood for freedom. Look at Tibetans ,they are not ready to fight, do you think they will get independence without fighting?
@Gods Bloody Hammer There was no Bangladesh before 1971. It was known as East Pakistan from 1947 to 1971. British and other European explorers sailed in search of a geographical location which they called "India" and not "South Asian Subcontinent". The term India encompassed Pakistan, India and Bangladesh. Also, while you're at it learn why Native Americans were called Indians way before 1947.
Also, to add, the British EIC stood for "East India Company" and not "East South Asian Subcontinent Company"
I'm Indian and I know quite a bit about our history. Several points made in this video are historically innaccurate/incorrect. A lot of things in this video show only one side and it almost seems as if this video is biased. Basically... Don't take this video seriously. (btw I absolutely love Simple History. I really hope that this video is just an exception...)
Can you point out the inaccuracies? Just curious.
@@winter_silhouette Source: Trust me bro
And the British accuse Hitler for being cruel.
Nobody was good here.
@@SwolfyTDP what was the fault of innocent Indians?
@@SwolfyTDP the rebels were the good guys, they were trying to free their motherland from colonization and white sumpremcy
@@rohitprasad3009 the fault was the slaughter of women and children. Even though the rebels were the "good guys" in this conflict they still committed some pretty atrocious war crimes
EIC: this rebellion will be our downfall
VOC: First time ?
VOC was disbanded on 1699 though... At that time the Dutch has an technological advantage over the Indonesian kingdoms.
@@siegfried2k4 i dont think the dutch ever had a disadvantage to begin with.
@@timvanrijn8239 Manpower... The Indonesian Kingdoms can churn out babies like there's no tommorow
As a wise man once said: when there’s a conflict If you say the British caused it half of the time you will be correct
Caused it?
@@Imperfect-Views Naturally
Think of the alternatives.. Clive made India British instead of French. French colonial history is an interesting study. The British were often in a war of survival against European powers - mainly Spain and France. It was prevailing against them that made the Empire what it was. Pity the Spanish had free reign in South America - that is history worth studying.
I like how blowing from a gun in the eyes of the Simple History animator(s) just means the person tied to gun and the gun itself enlarging
Might have had my support/sympathy if not for the deliberate targetted murder of civilians and Christians.