1st Brahmans
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The 1st Brahmans was an infantry regiment of the British Indian Army. The regiment fought in numerous conflict as part of Presidency armies of the East India Company as well as the British Indian Army
British and Indian officers of the 1st Brahmans, 1912.
Bengal Native Infantry
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The regiments of Bengal Native Infantry, alongside the regiments of Bengal European Infantry, were the regular infantry components of the East India Company's Bengal Army from the raising of the first
1st Brahmans
…the Anglo-Nepalese War 1814–16, the Second Anglo-Burmese War 1824–26 and the Bhurtpore Campaign 1826. The regiment was the senior-most among the twelve Bengal Native Infantry regiments that survived the Great Indian Rebellion of 1857–58. It was accordingly one of the small number of Bengal regular infantry regiments to retain…
1812 illustration of two Bengal Native Infantry soldiers
Illustration of a 21st Bengal Native Infantry subadar in 1819
A group photograph of 21st (Punjab) Regiment of Bengal Native Infantry, 1866
British and native officers, 15th (Ludhiana) Regiment of Bengal Native infantry. Photograph taken by the Royal Engineers during the 1884 Suakin Expedition