Osprey Men-at-Arms №067. Christopher Wilkinson-Latham. The Indian Mutiny

Osprey Publishing, 1977. — 48 p. — ISBN: 0850452597.On the 24 April 1855, Colonel Carmichael Smyth held a parade of the ninety skirmishers of the 3rd Light Cavalry of the Bengal Army at Meerut, some 30 miles from Delhi. The disastrous events that followed sparked an almost wholesale mutiny of the Honourable East India Company's Bengal Native Army. Had the ensuing uprising succeeded, it would have threatened the validity of the entire British Empire.