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This was one of the new Regiments regiments created in 1858 in the aftermath of the [[Indian Mutiny]] with European (ie i.e. British) troopers, rather than Indian ones. The officers were drawn from those surviving from the old [[1st Bengal Light Cavalry]] (which had mutinied at [[Mhow]]) and the 3rd (which had been the first cavalry regiment to mutiny at [[Meerut]] in May 1857) The Regiment was reconstituted == Chronology ==*'''1858''' raised as the 1st Bengal European Light Cavalry for service in the Indian Mutiny*'''1862''' renamed the [[19th Hussars]] in the Queen's (ie British) Army in 1861. == Recommended Reading ==A first-hand account of the creation and merger of the Regiment is to be found in '''The Diary of an Indian Cavalry Officer, 1843-63: Before, During, and After the Mutiny'''by John Hatfield Brooks, Pagoda Tree Press, Bath, 2003. The diarist was John Hatfield Brooks, who was an officer in the regiment. The book also contains at plate 14 a photograph of Captain Brooks in the Regiment's uniform. I suspect this may well be the only picture we have of the Regiment's uniform.ISBN 9781904289166 and ISBN 1904289169