10 May in Hindu history
10 May 185710 May 1857
The sepoys rise at Meerut
On a Sunday evening the sepoys at Meerut free their jailed comrades, kill their officers and march through the night for Delhi. The war of 1857 begins.
Meerut Rising
On a Sunday evening in May 1857 the sepoys of Meerut rose, and by the next morning they were at the gates of Delhi: the war of 1857 had begun.