The word Pandy was widely used by the British as a synonym for an Indian Mutineer, after Mangal Pandey(executed 1857) one of the first Sepoys to rebel against a British Officer's command, now seen as a freedom-fighter by modern Indian historians.
104th Wellesley's Rifles which was called the 5th Battalion Bombay Sepoys in 1775
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109th Infantry which was called the 5th Battalion Bombay Sepoys in 1768
In the Berasia tehsil of Bhopal, the rebel leaders Shajaat Khan Pindari and Jahangir Muhammad Khan raised a small force consisting of 70 sepoys.
After his denial, Mir Bakshi started sending his son to Ghulam Ahmad Faroghi in a Baggi along with Artillery Sepoys as a guard.
He built an army of native troops, called sepoys, who were trained as infantrymen men in his service also included the famous Hyder Ali of Mysore.
Edward Vibart (1807 - 1857), British Soldier, murdered by Sepoys at Siege of Cawnpore