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More recently, Tytler and his young wife, Harriet Tytler—she eight months pregnant, with two small children at her side—had narrowly escaped Delhi in 1857, when the sepoys, or Indian infantrymen, mutinied.
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Adam Goodheart, Smithsonian Magazine, 25 Sep. 2023
Adam Goodheart, Smithsonian Magazine, 25 Sep. 2023
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“Sepoy.” Merriam-Webster.com Dictionary, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/dictionary/sepoy. Accessed 23 Apr. 2024.
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sepoy
noun
se·poy
ˈsē-ˌpȯi 
: a native of India employed as a soldier in the service of a European power
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