The Madras Army was the army of the Presidency of Madras, one of the three presidencies of British India within the British Empire. The Madras Army was...
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The Madras Regiment is the oldest infantry regiment of the Indian Army, originating in the 1750s as a unit of the British East India Company. The regiment...
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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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Madras Engineer Group (MEG), informally known as the Madras Sappers, is an engineer group of the Corps of Engineers of the Indian Army. The Madras Sappers...
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The Madras Presidency or Madras Province, officially called the Presidency of Fort St. George until 1937, was an administrative subdivision (province)...
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Bengal Army, the Madras Army and the Bombay Army, of the Presidencies of British India, particularly after the Indian Rebellion. The first army officially called...
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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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a general aviation airport. Originally known as Madras Army Air Field, this was a World War II Army Air Corps training base for B-17 Flying Fortress...
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moustaches. In addition General Sir John Craddock, Commander-in-Chief of the Madras Army, ordered the wearing of a round hat resembling that associated at the...
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George Broadfoot (category British East India Company Army officers)
Broadfoot CB (21 March 1807 – 21 December 1845) was a Scottish army officer in the Madras Army of the East India Company. Broadfoot was born in Kirkwall,...
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Madras Cafe is a 2013 Indian Hindi-language political action thriller film directed by Shoojit Sircar and starring John Abraham, Nargis Fakhri with Raashi...
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The 102nd Regiment of Foot (Royal Madras Fusiliers) was a regiment of the British Army raised by the Honourable East India Company in 1742. It transferred...
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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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James Welsh (East India Company officer) (category British East India Company Army generals)
Welsh (12 March 1775 – 24 January 1861) was an English officer in the Madras Army of the East India Company. Welsh, son of John Welsh, a Scotsman, was...
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incorporated as a city in 1911. An Army Air Corps base was built nearby during World War II. This airfield now serves as the Madras Municipal Airport. Homesteads...
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Harry Prendergast (category British Army generals)
July 1913) was a British military officer who served with the Madras Army and the Indian Army. He was a recipient of the Victoria Cross (VC), the highest...
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John Munro, 9th of Teaninich (category British East India Company Army generals)
Ross-shire. John Munro enlisted as a cadet in the East India Company's Madras Army in April 1791, aged 16, and was appointed Lieutenant in August 1794....
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62nd Punjabis (redirect from 2nd Madras Battalion)
regiment of the British Indian Army. It was raised in 1759 as the 3rd Battalion of Coast Sepoys, and formed part of the Madras Army. It was designated as the...
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1st Punjab Regiment (category British Indian Army infantry regiments)
existing infantry regiment of the Pakistan Army. The 1st Punjab Regiment had its antecedents in the old Madras Army of the British East India Company, which...
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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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Cavalry 3rd Madras Light Cavalry, 7th Light Cavalry 4th Madras Light Cavalry; see Madras Army 5th Madras Light Cavalry; see Madras Army 6th Madras Light Cavalry;...
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Regiment of Foot (Madras Infantry) was an infantry regiment of the British Army. However, it was raised initially as part of the Madras Army, by the East India...
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Baloch Regiment (category British Indian Army infantry regiments)
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, British...
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Chennai (redirect from Madras, Madras State)
Chennai (/ˈtʃɛnaɪ/ ; Tamil: [ˈt͡ɕenːaɪ̯], ISO: Ceṉṉai), formerly known as Madras, is the capital city of Tamil Nadu, the southernmost state of India. It...
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infantry regiments of the Madras Army plus four companies of an English regiment. The British commander-in-chief of the Madras Army had prescribed a new round...
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Patrick Mahoney (category Irish soldiers in the British East India Company Army)
years old, and a sergeant in the 1st Madras European Fusiliers (later The Royal Dublin Fusiliers), Madras Army during the Indian Mutiny when the following...
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major-general. The following year he was appointed to the command of the Madras Army in 1854, and early in 1856 became Commander-in-Chief in India. He was...
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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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Madras Presidency (also known as Madras Province and known officially as Presidency of Fort St. George) was an administrative subdivision (presidency)...
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scene of a mutiny by officers of the Madras Army, led by Col. Bell, against Sir. George Barlow, the Governor of Madras. Purnaiah, lived in this house after...
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