Indian Rebellion in 1857
In the twentieth year of Her Majesty Queen Victoria's reign, news of the armed conflict that erupted unexpectedly in the northern part of the country, known as the jewel of the British Crown - India, shook the British and world public. The trigger for the whole event was a problem of military significance, but the roots of the uprising, as it later turned out, lay much deeper in the history of British-Indian relations.