![]() ![]() Footnote 2 Much of northern India, it seemed, was up in arms against British power, and the governor of Bombay sought assistance before the situation worsened. Not only had the Indian soldiers mutinied, but they had marched to Delhi, seized control of the town, and were “daily receiving large reinforcements” from the surrounding country. Footnote 1 The sepoys, Grey was informed, had mutinied. In the early morning hours of August 6, 1857, the governor of the Cape Colony and high commissioner of South Africa, Sir George Grey, awoke to find that a ship had arrived with urgent news from India.
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