{"id":978,"date":"2010-02-23T23:46:45","date_gmt":"2010-02-24T05:46:45","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/asylumeclectica.com\/grim\/?p=978"},"modified":"2010-02-23T23:46:45","modified_gmt":"2010-02-24T05:46:45","slug":"morbid-fact-du-jour-for-february-23-2010","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.decidedlygrim.net\/?p=978","title":{"rendered":"Morbid Fact Du Jour For February 23, 2010"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><strong>Today&#8217;s Mutinous Yet Truly Morbid Fact!<\/strong><\/p>\n<p>The Indian soldiers of the British 47th Regiment of Native Infantry recognized two different imperatives: those of the caste system that had dominated life in India for many centuries, and those of the British army. In addition, the soldiers had a number of grievances against the British, not the least of which was that the British were offering camp followers more pay than the soldiers themselves.<\/p>\n<p>Matters came to a head on November 1, 1824, when the British commander ordered Indians in the regiment to carry their own supplies for a long march because pack animals were not available. But caste system taboos forbade the soldiers to do so, and when the British colonel arrived at the assembly area, he found only a few soldiers present.<\/p>\n<p>Defying orders, the soldiers had stayed behind, with knapsacks off and their muskets loaded. They chased away the colonel and the officers of the regiment, and later that day, more Indian soldiers joined the mutiny. Meanwhile, the British brought in artillery and reinforcements. <\/p>\n<p>Next morning at dawn, the British opened fire with the cannons. About 100 of the mutineers were killed, and of the many prisoners taken, 12 who were deemed to be the leaders were hanged. The rest were sentenced to 14 years hard labor. The army erased the regiment&#8217;s name from the army list, but the Indians&#8217; resentment was not to be dispensed with so easily. In fact, the brief revolt proved to be a harbinger of the bloody Sepoy Mutiny of 1857-58<\/p>\n<p>Culled from: <a href=\"http:\/\/www.amazon.com\/exec\/obidos\/ASIN\/006095745X\/theasylumeclecti\">The Pessimist&#8217;s Guide To History<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Today&#8217;s Mutinous Yet Truly Morbid Fact! The Indian soldiers of the British 47th Regiment of Native Infantry recognized two different imperatives: those of the caste system that had dominated life in India for many centuries, and those of the British army. In addition, the soldiers had a number of grievances against the British, not the [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[5],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-978","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-facts"],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.decidedlygrim.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/978","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.decidedlygrim.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.decidedlygrim.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.decidedlygrim.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.decidedlygrim.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=978"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.decidedlygrim.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/978\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.decidedlygrim.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=978"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.decidedlygrim.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=978"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.decidedlygrim.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=978"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}