| Meerut District is one of the most agriculturally advanced and fertile districts in western Uttar Pradesh. |
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| When it became clear that the help expected from Meerut was not coming, they made their way in carriages to Karnal. |
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| In the countryside around Meerut, a general Gurjar uprising posed the largest threat to the British. |
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| It took time to organise the European troops already in India into field forces, but eventually two columns left Meerut and Simla. |
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| Two months after the first outbreak of rebellion at Meerut, the two forces met near Karnal. |
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| It said the blast took place when a mortar shell exploded in an army waste materials dump in the Meerut district of Uttar Pradesh. |
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| Chandigarh Virbhadra Subadar Ganj Lohta Khalispur Kandrori Sholaka Gohana Rewari Kosikalan Pathri Churu Antri Banmore Ghaziabad Meerut Cantt. |
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| There was also unrest in the city of Meerut itself, with angry protests in the bazaar and some buildings being set on fire. |
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| Almost from the moment the first sepoys mutinied in Meerut, the nature and the scope of the Indian Rebellion of 1857 has been contested and argued over. |
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| The British historian Philip Mason notes that it was inevitable that most of the sepoys and sowars from Meerut should have made for Delhi on the night of 10 May. |
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