Question

Why were the reasons behind the failure of the Revolt? How did the British suppress the revolt?

Answer 1

Instructions: Explain the following points:

• Reasons behind the failure: No planning or combined efforts and shortage of modern weapons
• British suppressed the revolt brutally: They killed the sepoys by hanging their bodies from the trees and blew them after tying them from canons.

Solution:

• The English eventually gained the control over the situation.
• The two major wekanesses of the revolt were:
  • There was no combined and well-planned effort to fight against the British together.
  • There was a shortage of modern arms with the rebels.
• The British suppressed the revolt with cruelty and killed the rebels in the most inhuman way.
• Sometimes they hanged the bodies of the rebels from the trees in the village.
• They also tied rebels to the mouths of the cannons and blew them.