Showing posts with label Tradition of London. Show all posts
Showing posts with label Tradition of London. Show all posts

Thursday, January 26, 2017

Tradition of London: New Mounted Indians With Bow & Rifles


Tradition of London: The Battle of the Little Bighorn, known to the Lakota and other Plains Indians as the Battle of the Greasy Grass and commonly referred to as Custer's Last Stand, was an armed engagement between combined forces of the Lakota, Northern Cheyenne, and Arapaho tribes and the 7th Cavalry Regiment of the United States Army. Available painted or unpainted



Monday, April 25, 2016

Tradition of London: The Indian Rebellion Toy Soldiers Set


Tradition of London: The Indian Rebellion of 1857 refers to a rebellion in India against the rule of the British East India Company, that ran from May 1857 to June 1858. The rebellion began as a mutiny of sepoys of the East India Company's army on 10 May 1857, in the cantonment of the town of Meerut, and soon escalated into other mutinies and civilian rebellions largely in the upper Gangetic plain and central India, with the major hostilities confined to present-day Uttar Pradesh, Bihar, northern Madhya Pradesh, and the Delhi region.

The rebellion posed a considerable threat to East India Company power in that region, and was contained only with the fall of Gwalior on 20 June 1858. The rebellion has been known by many names, including India's First War of Independence,

Thursday, December 31, 2015