The Bombay Army was the army of the Bombay Presidency, one of the three presidencies of British India. It was established in 1668 and governed by the East...
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Indian sepoys. The presidency armies were named after the presidencies: the Bengal Army, the Madras Army and the Bombay Army. Initially, only Europeans served...
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The Bombay Presidency or Bombay Province, also called Bombay and Sind (1843–1936), was an administrative subdivision (province) of India, with its capital...
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The Grenadiers (redirect from Bombay Grenadiers)
Indian Army, formerly part of the Bombay Army and later the pre-independence British Indian Army, when the regiment was known as the 4th Bombay Grenadiers...
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Madras Army and the Bombay Army, of the Presidencies of British India, particularly after the Indian Rebellion of 1857. In 1879, the Presidency armies were...
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(C-in-C) in 1748 to head its three Presidency Armies, namely the Bengal Army, the Bombay Army and the Madras Army. Following the 1857-58 Indian rebellion against...
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Richard Francis Burton (category British East India Company Army officers)
to 29 different languages. Born in Torquay, Devon, Burton joined the Bombay Army as an officer in 1842, beginning an eighteen-year military career which...
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Western Command (India) (redirect from Western Army (India))
the Bombay Command was renamed as the Western Command. In 1908, the four commands were merged into two Armies: Northern Army and Southern Army as recommended...
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company began to maintain armies at Calcutta (Bengal Army), Madras (Madras Army) and Bombay (Bombay Army). The presidency armies had their own Regiments...
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The Bombay Engineer Group, or the Bombay Sappers as they are informally known, are a regiment of the Corps of Engineers of the Indian Army. The Bombay Sappers...
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John Keane, 1st Baron Keane (redirect from John Keane (British army officer))
Order. Then on 14 October 1833 Keane was appointed Commander-in-Chief, Bombay Army. He assumed command on 2 July the following year. On 6 April 1838 Keane...
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Indian Rebellion of 1857 (section The Bengal Army)
Company's forces were divided into three presidency armies: Bombay, Madras, and Bengal. The Bengal Army recruited higher castes, such as Brahmins, Rajputs...
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Mumbai (redirect from Mumbai (Bombay))
(/mʊmˈbaɪ/ muum-BY; ISO: Muṁbaī, Marathi: [ˈmumbəi] ), formerly known as Bombay (/bɒmˈbeɪ/ bom-BAY), is the capital city of the Indian state of Maharashtra...
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Commanding South-West District in 1847, and then Commander-in-Chief of the Bombay Army in 1852. He died in office in October 1854. The coat of arms of Lord...
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following Indian Army Regiments: Bombay Army - 2nd Bombay Light Cavalry Bombay Army - 3rd Bombay Light Cavalry (Lancers) Bombay Army - 23rd Bombay Native Light...
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rebellion of 1857. In the course of this uprising, detachments of the Bombay Army of the East India Company overcame the disunited collection of Indian...
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13th Lancers (redirect from 2nd Bombay Light Cavalry)
reorganisation of the Indian Army of 1903, the Bombay cavalry had thirty added to their numbers and, the 1st (Duke of Connaught's Own) Bombay Lancers became the...
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battle between forces of the Bombay Army of the East India Company, under the command of Charles Napier and the Baloch army of Talpur Amirs of Sindh, led...
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Charles James Napier (category British Army generals)
officer and veteran of the British Army's Peninsular and 1812 campaigns, and later a major general of the Bombay Army, during which period he led the British...
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Indian Army in 1903. These reforms were intended to improve the Army, which had been formed from the separate Bengal, Bombay and Madras presidency armies in...
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Regiment of Artillery (India) (redirect from Indian Army Regiment of Artillery)
Indian Army, which itself traces its origins to the formation of Bombay Artillery in 1827. Today, it is the second-largest arm of the Indian Army, and with...
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Central Indian campaign of 1858 (category History of the Bombay Sappers)
last series of actions in the Indian rebellion of 1857. The British Army and Bombay Army overcame a disunited collection of states in a single rapid campaign...
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Baloch Regiment (category British Indian Army infantry regiments)
Qaisar-i-Hind in 1971. The Baloch Regiment has its origin in the former Bombay and Madras Armies, as well as the State Forces of Bahawalpur. In the 18th century...
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Arthur Thomas Moore (category Bombay Staff Corps officers)
Arthur Thomas Moore, VC, CB (20 September 1830 – 25 April 1913) was a Bombay Army officer and an Irish recipient of the Victoria Cross, the highest award...
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Maratha Light Infantry (category British Indian Army infantry regiments)
Indian Army. It traces its lineage to the Bombay Sepoys, raised in 1768, making it the most senior light infantry regiment in the Indian Army. The class...
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initial step the Army of India was divided into four commands, each commanded by a lieutenant-general. These comprised Bengal, Bombay (including Aden)...
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Anglo-Persian War (category Battle honours of the Bombay Sappers)
Indian sepoys of the Bombay Presidency army which landed in Persia in early December 1856. This included two companies of the Bombay Sappers & Miners. These...
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Bombay plague | National Army Museum". www.nam.ac.uk. "The Bombay plague | National Army Museum". www.nam.ac.uk. "The Bombay plague | National Army Museum"...
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Pasha, (1830 – 5 November 1883), was a British soldier who entered the Bombay Army in 1849, and served through the Indian mutiny, being mentioned in dispatches...
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Prince Arthur, Duke of Connaught and Strathearn (category British Army personnel of the Anglo-Egyptian War)
general. He gained military experience as Commander-in-Chief of the Bombay Army from December 1886 to March 1890. He went on to be General officer commanding...
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