TANTIA TOPEE

TANTIA TOPEE
   the most daring and stubborn of Nana Sahib's lieutenants during the Indian Mutiny; in alliance with the Rani of Jhansi he upheld for a time the mutiny after the flight of his chief, but was finally captured and executed in 1859.

The Nuttall Encyclopaedia. . 1907.

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