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Known as '''7th Rajputs'''
== Chronology ==
''In the [[Indian Mutiny]] the [[47th Regiment of Bengal Native Infantry]] did not rebel and, in the ensuing disbandment of [[Bengal Army]] regiments, the 47th became the seventh most senior.''

*'''1861''' became the  7th Bengal Native Infantry
*'''1883''' became 7th (Duke of Connaught's Own) Bengal Native Infantry
*'''1893''' became '''7th (Duke of Connaught's Own) Rajput Regiment of Bengal Native Infantry'''
*'''1903''' became 7th (Duke of Connaught's Own) Rajput Infantry
*'''1922''' became 3rd Battalion [[7th Rajput Regiment]] 
*'''1947''' allocated to India on Partition and renamed the Rajput Regiment

== Battle Honours ==
*[[Battle of Moodkee|Moodkee]]
*[[Battle of Ferozeshah|Ferozeshah]]
*[[Battle of Aliwal|Aliwal]]
*[[Battle of Sobraon|Sobraon]]
*[[:Category:2nd China War 1856-60|China 1858-59]]
*[[Egyptian Campaign|Egypt 1882]]
:*[[Battle of Tel el-Kebir|Tel-el-Kebir]]
*Pekin 1900

==Regimental history==
*''History of the Rajput Regiment''  by  Mustasad Ahmad published from 1977.
:Contents: v. 1 ''Heritage : 1778-1947'' -- v. 2 ''Living up to heritage : 1947-1970'' -- v. 3. ''Bejewelled heritage : 1970-2005'' by Anil Shorey.
:Available at the [[British Library]] UIN: BLL01008834694

*Also see Historical books online, below.

== External links ==
*[http://www.britishempire.co.uk/forces/armyunits/indianinfantry/7thrajputs.htm 7th Rajputs] British Empire website<br>
*[http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/7th_Rajput_Regiment  7th Rajput Regiment] Wikipedia
*[http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Rajput_Regiment Rajput Regiment] Wikipedia
*[https://web.archive.org/web/20140808040827/http://www.js-ww1.bham.ac.uk/articles/issue3_Connelly.pdf  "The British Campaign in Aden, 1914-1918"] by Mark Connelly ''Journal of the Centre for First World War Studies Vol. 1, No. 3, 2005''. pages 65-96, now archived.  Includes brief mention of 7/Rajputs
* "7th (Duke of Connaught's Own) Rajputs in the First World War"  [https://www.researchingww1.co.uk/7th-rajputs-1st-battalion 1st Battalion], [https://www.researchingww1.co.uk/2nd-battalion-7th-rajputs 2nd Battalion] researchingww1.co.uk. Includes extracts from War Diaries.
*[https://www.flickr.com/photos/46212770@N08/14167137338/in/album-72157645014864191/ 7th Rajput Mutiny] Two soldiers were charged by court martial  with the charge of Mutiny in 1916. flickr.com

===Historical books online===
*[http://cslrepository.nvli.in//handle/123456789/6258 ''The History of the 3rd Battalion 7th Rajput Regiment - Duke of Connaught's Own''] by H. G. Rawlinson 1941. Central Secretariat Library (CSL) Digital Repository, Delhi. [https://archive.org/details/dli.csl.6258/mode/2up  Archive.org mirror version].
:"Covers the period from 1778 to 1940. The principal campaigns described are - First Sikh War (1845-7), Second China War (1860), Egypt (1882), Third China War (1900), and then Aden and Mesopotamia in WWI."<ref>[https://www.peterharrington.co.uk/the-history-of-the-3rd-battalion-7th-rajput-regiment-duke-of-connaught-s-own-120074.html peterharrington.co.uk], [https://web.archive.org/web/20191229061132/https://www.peterharrington.co.uk/the-history-of-the-3rd-battalion-7th-rajput-regiment-duke-of-connaught-s-own-120074.html archived].</ref>
*[https://archive.org/details/cu31924023194545 ''St. George and the Chinese Dragon. An Account of the Relief of the Pekin Legations by an Officer of the British Contingent''] by Colonel H B Vaughan 7th Rajputs 1902 Archive.org

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