Brevet Major William Stephen Raikes Hodson 1857 reconnoitring before delhi Indian Rebellion of 1857
Brevet Major William Stephen Raikes Hodson (10 March 1821 - 11 March 1858) was the British leader of irregular light cavalry during the Indian Rebellion of 1857. He was known as "Hodson of Hodson's Horse." Hodson is credited with being jointly responsible for the introduction of the khaki uniform. His most notable action was to apprehend and safely return the Emperor of India and, the following day, march into an enemy camp where he was heavily outnumbered and demanded the surrender of the Moghul princes who were leading the rebellion around Delhi. In explanation of the fact that he never received the Victoria Cross it was said of him “that it was because he earned it every day of his life”. Indian Rebellion of 1857 began as a mutiny of sepoys of British East India Company's army on 10 May 1857, in the town of Meerut, and soon erupted into other mutinies and civilian rebellions largely in the upper Gangetic plain and central India, with the major hostilities confined to present-day Uttar Pradesh, Bihar, northern Madhya Pradesh, and the Delhi region. The rebellion posed a considerable threat to Company power in that region, and it was contained only with the fall of Gwalior on 20 June 1858. The rebellion is also known as India's First War of Independence, the Great Rebellion, the Indian Mutiny, the Revolt of 1857, the Uprising of 1857 and the Sepoy Mutiny. The rebels quickly captured large swathes of the North-Western Provinces and Oudh, including Delhi, where they installed the Mughal ruler, Bahadur Shah Zafar, as Emperor of Hindustan. The Company response came rapidly as well: by September 1857, with help from fresh reinforcements, Delhi had been retaken. Nevertheless, it then took the better part of 1858 for the rebellion to be completely suppressed in Oudh.
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