The Barrackpore mutiny was a rising of native Indian sepoys against their British officers in Barrackpore in November 1824. The incident occurred when the British East India Company was fighting the First Anglo-Burmese War (1824–1826) under the leadership of the Governor-General of Bengal, William Amherst, 1st Earl Amherst.
A portrait of General Sir Edward Paget, who suppressed the mutiny.
A board on Bindee Tiwari's revolt at Barrackpore Cantonment
Earl Amherst, Governor General of India, was harshly criticised by a British newspaper report.
General Sir Edward Paget was a British Army officer.
The capture of General Edward Paget by the French, 17 November 1812