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Latest revision as of 21:43, 8 July 2023
The 1st Regiment of Bengal Native Infantry refers to the Bengal Native Infantry unit that mutinied in 1857.
ChronologyEdit
- 1757 formed at Kolkata as the "Lal Pultan"[1] (Red Battalion) ranked as 1st Battalion
- 1763 named Galliez Battalion after Captain Primrose Galliez
- 1764 Patna Mutiny
- 1764 ranked 9th (Galliez) Battalion
- 1765 posted to the 3rd Brigade
- 1775 became 16th Battalion
- 1781 became 10th Regiment of Bengal Native Infantry
- 1784 became 17th Regiment of Bengal Native Infantry
- 1786 became 17th Battalion of Bengal Native Infantry
- 1796 became 2nd Battalion 12th Regiment of Bengal Native Infantry
- 1824 became 1st Regiment of Bengal Native Infantry
- 1857 mutinied at Cawnpore[2]
In 1861, after the mutiny, the title was given to the 21st Bengal Native Infantry which later became the 1st Regiment of Brahman Infantry.[3]
ReferencesEdit
- ↑ Minutes of Evidence Taken Before the Select Committee on the Affairs of the East India Company. London: House of Commons Select Committee on the East India Company. 1832. pp. 333, 334.
- ↑ Quarterly Army List of Her Majesty's British Forces on the Bengal Establishment. Calcutta: R C Lepage & Co. 1859.
- ↑ "1st Regiment of Bengal Native Infantry - FIBIwiki". wiki.fibis.org. Retrieved 4 June 2016.
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