1. Mangal Pandey shot a British officer at Barrackpore cantonment who forced him to use cartridges greased with the fat of cows and pigs.

2. Mangal Pandey was arrested and hanged. News spread like fire to other cantonments. 

3. The entire regiment of Indian soldiers at Meerut battled and marched towards Delhi. 

4. On reaching Delhi, the rebels proclaimed Bahadur Shah as the Emperor of India. 

5. It spread to the whole of north India. The soldiers in the cantonments from Bihar to Rajput ana participated in the revolt. 

6. The revolt spread to Lucknow, Allahabad, Kanpur, Banaras, Bareli and Jhansi. 

7. It spread to the whole of north India and in Nagpur, Satara, Kolhapur and Nargund, Khandesh in western India. 

8. Many princely states, peasants and about 400 female Bhills participated in revolt at Khandesh to free themselves from the oppressive rule of the British. 

9. The struggle was led by Bahadur Shah the Mughal Emperor, Nanasaheb Peshwa, Rani Laxmibai, Tatya Tope, Kunwar Singh of Bihar and Begum Hazrat Mahal of Ayodhya.