20th Regiment of Bengal Native Infantry

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Main article: Bengal Native Infantry
This article is about the Bengal Native Infantry unit that mutinied in 1857. For the unit that existed after 1861, see 20th Duke of Cambridge's Own Infantry (Brownlow's Punjabis).

Chronology[edit]

  • 1776 raised for the Vizier of Oude under Captain Baillie
  • 1777 incorporated in HEIC service as the 27th Regiment of Bengal Native Infantry
  • 1781 became the 20th Regiment of Bengal Native Infantry
  • 1784 became the 23rd Regiment of Bengal Native Infantry
  • 1786 became the 23rd Battalion of Bengal Native Infantry
  • 1796 became the 2nd Battalion 5th Regiment of Bengal Native Infantry
  • 1824 became the 20th Regiment of Bengal Native Infantry
  • 1857 Mutinied at Meerut 10 May[1]

In 1861, after the mutiny, the title was given to the 8th Regiment of Punjab Infantry[2]

References[edit]

  1. ↑ Quarterly Army List of Her Majesty's British Forces on the Bengal Establishment. Calcutta: R C Lepage & Co. 1859.
  2. ↑ "20th Regiment of Bengal Native Infantry - FIBIwiki". wiki.fibis.org. Retrieved 4 June 2016.
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