The Armed Forces in British India (original) (raw)

General

• “No place or office should be barred to the native soldier”: Sir Henry Lawrence on the Need for Native Officers in the Indian Army

Battles before the 1867 Mutiny

• British cavalry and infantry marching to attack Indian hill fortress, 1813
• Battle of Ferozshah (2nd day); 22nd December 1845
• Charge of H.M. 14th Light Dragoons at the Battle of Ramnuggur, Novr. 22nd 1848, 1851
• The last effort and fall of Tippoo Sultaun, c. 1839

The Mutiny and After

• Carrying a wounded officer, Indian Mutiny, 1857
• Sergt. R. Wadeson, 75th Regiment, coming to the rescue of Private R. Farrell, Indian Mutiny, 1857
• The Massacre of Cawnpore
• The 78th Highlanders at the taking of Sucunderabagh, Siege of Lucknow, 1857
• 9th-Queen's-Royal Lancers attacking mutineers in India, 1858
• The 2nd Dragoon Guards, the Queen's Bays, routing the Lucknow mutineers near the Hyderabad road, 1859
• Indian elephant artillery battery, 1860
• The Place of Slaughter. Umbeyla 1863
• In Search of Gopal Drooge and the Murder of Captain William Richardson
• A melancholy monument to the ravages of disease in British India
• “An indelible stigma of disgrace”: The Guns of Kabul
• Grave of Rear Admiral Charles John Austen (Jane Austen’s brother), Trincomalee, Sri Lanka
• A Mystery Poster of the North-West Frontier

Representations of Individual Units and Their Uniforms

• Paintings, Drawings, and Photographs of the Army in British India

Memorials

• The Memorial to the Queen’s Own Corps of Guides at Mardan, Pakistan
• The “Sanguinary” Battle of Chillianwala and the “Lost Graves” of the 24th Foot

Related material

• Medals of the Armed Forces in British India

Last modified 12 May 2019