The First War of Indpendance, or the Sepoy Mutiny as the Britishers called it started on 10 May 1857 at Meerut. The fight continued for months. Delhi fell at the advance of the Indian Sepoys. The fight continued for months. Rani Lakshmi Bai, Tandia Topi and all the great leaders of the war of Independance fell one after another. They could not match the highly developed armaments of the British.And there were traitors.
But this 1857 war gave waves through out the world that the Indian people have raised their swords against the Britishers. Within another 100 years, India got independance.