1st Regiment of Bengal Native Infantry
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" ranked as 1st Battalion
- 1763 named Galliez Battalion after Captain Primrose Galliez
- 1764 Patna Mutiny
- 1764 ranked 9th 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