In 1667 the East India Company began training Indian natives as soldiers, also know as native sepoys. Soon these sepoys became a very large part of Britain’s military forces in India, outnumbering the Britain forces ten to one. Eventually Britain had imperialized two-thirds of the land in India, and soon there was a great amount of tension between the sepoys and Britain. Before 1857 there had been smaller revolts, but these were snuffed out. In 1857 the first of the revolts was in the garrison of Meerut, where the sepoys killed any European that they could find. They then marched to Delhi, where they placed themselves under the leadership of the Mogul Emperor Bahadur Shah. For the next few months the idea of mutiny spread causing other rebellions
