Still reading G W Forrest, A History of the Indian Mutiny. Apparently, there was another mutiny in the Bengal Army in 1764 during the Battle of Buxar (faint memories of this from my school days). Here is how it was handled:
"Munro, who had hastened to the spot, ordered eight and twenty of the most culpable to be picked out and tried by a drum head general court marshall, when the whole were sentenced to death. The eight guns of the detachment being brought out, the first eight were fixed to their muzzles and blown away."
Very nice!
The rest were blown away in a similar fashion.
(Why did they mutiny? Apparently, according to Forrest, they wanted to join the other - Indian - side.)
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