After formal trial, six mutineers are blown…
July 1806 CE
The three Madras battalions involved in the mutiny are all disbanded.
The senior British officers responsible for the offensive dress regulations are recalled to England including the Commander-in-Chief of Madras Army, John Craddock, the company refusing to pay even his passage.
The orders regarding the 'new turbans' (round hats) are also cancelled.
After the incident, the incarcerated royals in Vellore fort are transferred to Calcutta.
The Governor of Madras, William Bentinck, too is recalled, the Company's Court of Directors regretting that "greater care and caution had not been exercised in examining into the real sentiments and dispositions of the sepoys before measures of severity were adopted to enforce the order respecting the use of the new turban."
The controversial interference with the social and religious customs of the sepoys is also abolished, as is flogging within the Indian regiments.
The only surviving eyewitness account of the actual outbreak of the mutiny is that of Amelia Farrer, Lady Fancourt (the wife of St. John Fancourt, the commander of the fort).
Her manuscript account, written two weeks after the massacre, describes how she and her children survived as her husband perished.