Answer:
The Mughal Emperor Aurangzeb leads his final expedition (1705), (sepoy column visible in the lower right).
A Sipahi or a sepoy was an infantryman armed with a musket in the army of the Mughal Empire.
The earliest sepoys were armed with daggers, talwars and matchlocks.[4] By the mid to late 17th century they began to utilize more upgraded forms of muskets and even rockets. These sepoys also operated and mounted artillery pieces and sharpshooter upon war elephants which were also used for transport, hauling artillery and in combat.[5]
By the 18th century individual Nawabs employed their own sepoy units as did the European merchant companies established in parts of India.
Sepoys became more visible when they gained European arms and fought for various fragmented polities of the Mughal Empire during the Carnatic Wars and the Bengal War. After which the importance of the local sepoy diminished and were replaced by the "European hired Sepoy".
