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by introducing amongst them rules and regulations 

 suitable only for an army drawn from natives 

 in an advanced state of civilisation. The contest 

 for supremacy was severe and long continued. 



In May, 1857, there were in India: European 

 soldiers, forty-five thousand ; Native, two hundred 

 and forty-four thousand ; Semi-Military Police, 

 eighty thousand. 



About two hundred and fifty thousand Native 

 Soldiery were arrayed against the British power 

 in 1857. The British force was composed of 

 forty-five thousand Europeans, and some sixty- 

 thousand reliable native soldiery. These last were 

 increased to about one hundred and fifty thousand 

 native soldiers by the addition of the Sikh Army 

 from the Punjab, and before July, 1858, there 

 were over eighty-thousand British troops in India. 

 After the revolt was quelled there was a reduc- 

 tion of the Native Army, and by November, 1866, 

 it had fallen to one hundred and thirty-five 

 thousand men with only twelve guns, as against 

 one hundred and fifty in 1857. 



The successive stages of the revolt, and the re- 

 establishment of British authority are detailed 

 below : 



The revolt of the Bengal Native Army was 

 commenced at Berhampoor by the igth Bengal 

 Native Infantry, on February 26th, 1857. 



