1st Regiment of Bengal Native Infantry explained

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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]

Notes and References

1. Book: Minutes of Evidence Taken Before the Select Committee on the Affairs of the East India Company. 1832. House of Commons Select Committee on the East India Company. London. 333, 334.
2. Book: Quarterly Army List of Her Majesty's British Forces on the Bengal Establishment. 1859. R C Lepage & Co.. Calcutta.
3. Web site: 1st Regiment of Bengal Native Infantry - FIBIwiki. wiki.fibis.org. 4 June 2016.