The Bengal Army was the army of the Bengal Presidency, one of the three presidencies of British India within the British Empire. The presidency armies, like...

rendering support, you may see question marks, boxes, or other symbols. Bengal (/bɛnˈɡɔːl/ ben-GAWL) is a historical geographical, ethnolinguistic and...

The Bengal Presidency, officially the Presidency of Fort William in Bengal, later the Bengal Province, was the largest of all three presidencies of British...

Indian sepoys. The presidency armies were named after the presidencies: the Bengal Army, the Madras Army and the Bombay Army. Initially, only Europeans served...

important consideration in an army that valued impressive appearance amongst its soldiers. Despite its name the Bengal army, created first, mostly recruited...

hasty action. Gough's army was composed of two infantry divisions, each of two brigades, each in turn of one British and two Bengal Native infantry battalions...

Company's forces were divided into three presidency armies: Bombay, Madras, and Bengal. The Bengal Army recruited higher castes, such as Brahmins, Rajputs...

Army. The unit was originally part of the Bengal Army of the East India Company's Bengal Presidency, and subsequently part of the British Indian Army...

the Bengal Army that saw the Bengal Native Infantry regiments reduced to 45. The title "Bengal Native Infantry" fell out of use in 1885 and the Bengal Infantry...

Army appears to have been first used informally, as a collective description of the Presidency armies, which collectively comprised the Bengal Army,...