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The New Hampshire Gazette And General Advertiser
Portsmouth, Exeter, Rockingham County, New Hampshire
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Court in Berhampore sentences Emtongh Sing Subadar of the 35th regiment of Sepoys to be blown from a gun for exciting mutiny, despite acquittal on direct mutiny charge. Several other officers receive similar sentences following the Burdowa mutiny. Dated 7th May.
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Emtongh Sing Subadar, 1st battalion, 35th regiment of Seapoys, brought into Court, and charged with mutiny, of which he is acquitted--But the Court find him guilty of exciting the Seapoys to mutiny which being a breach of the third article of the second section of the articles of war, they do adjudge him, and he is hereby adjudged, to be blown from a gun, in front of all the troops at Berhampore.
Several other officers shared a similar fate for the same crime.
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Berhampore
Event Date
7th May
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emtongh sing subadar adjudged to be blown from a gun; several other officers shared similar fate for exciting mutiny.
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The 35th regiment of Sepahis mutinied at Burdowa and was sent to Berhampore for trial and execution. Emtongh Sing Subadar, 1st battalion, 35th regiment of Seapoys, acquitted of mutiny but found guilty of exciting Sepoys to mutiny, in breach of the third article of the second section of the articles of war, and sentenced to be blown from a gun in front of all troops at Berhampore. Several other officers received similar sentences for the same crime.