The 1st Regiment of Bengal Native Infantry refers to the Bengal Native Infantry unit that mutinied in 1857.

Chronology

  • 1757 formed at Calcutta 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]

References

  1. ↑ 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.
  2. ↑ Quarterly Army List of Her Majesty's British Forces on the Bengal Establishment. Calcutta: R C Lepage & Co. 1859.
  3. ↑ "1st Regiment of Bengal Native Infantry - FIBIwiki". wiki.fibis.org. Retrieved 4 June 2016.


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