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| Known as '''[[Skinner's Horse]]'''
| | #REDIRECT [[1st Bengal Lancers (Skinner's Horse)]] |
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| == Chronology ==
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| *'''1803''' raised by James Skinner as Captain Skinner's Corps of Irregular Horse
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| *'''1823''' became 1st Regiment of Local Horse
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| *'''1840''' became 1st Bengal Irregular Cavalry
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| *'''1861''' became 1st Regiment of Bengal Cavalry
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| *'''1896''' became 1st Regiment of Bengal Lancers
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| *'''1899''' became '''1st (The Duke of York's Own) Regiment of Bengal Lancers'''
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| *'''1901''' became 1st (Duke of York's Own) Bengal Lancers (Skinner's Horse)
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| *'''1903''' became 1st Bengal Lancers (Skinner's Horse)
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| *'''1821''' became 1st Duke of York's Own Skinner's Horse
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| *'''1947''' allocated to India on Partition
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| == Battle Honours ==
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| *[[Siege of Bhurtpore 1826|Bhurtpore]]
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| *[[1st Afghan War|Candahar 1842]]
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| *[[2nd Afghan War|Afghanistan 1878-80]]
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| *[[3rd Afghan War|Afghanistan 1919]]
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| == Recommended Reading ==
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| * ''The Recollections of James Skinner of Skinner's Horse'' by James Skinner. This book can be purchased through the [http://www.new.fibis.org/products-page/3-other-books-about-colonial-india/military-history/bkx-0118-skinner-of-skinners-horse/ FIBIS Shop]
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| == External Links ==
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| *[http://www.britishempire.co.uk/forces/armyunits/indiancavalry/skinners.htm Skinner's Horse] British Empire website<br>
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| *[http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Skinner's_Horse Skinner's Horse] Wikipedia<br>
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| *[http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/3rd_Skinner's_Horse 3rd Skinner's Horse] Wikipedia<br>
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| *[http://www.oxforddnb.com/index/101025676/ James Skinner] Oxford Dictionary of National Biography<br>
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| *[http://www.oxforddnb.com/index/101025687/ Thomas Skinner] Oxford Dictionary of National Biography<br>
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| *[http://www.national-army-museum.ac.uk/exhibitions/baba/index.php?page=1|%3e|6|%3e|25 James Skinner] from the National Army Museum website
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| *[http://gmic.co.uk/index.php/topic/47005-skinners-horse Skinner’s Horse] Thread from Gentleman’s Military Interest Club, with images
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| ===Historical Books Online===
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| *''Military memoir of Lieut-Col. James Skinner, C. B.: for many years a distinguished officer commanding a corps of irregular cavalry in the service of the H. E. I. C.'' by James Baillie Fraser 1851 [http://books.google.com/books?id=_TERAAAAYAAJ Volume 1], [http://books.google.com/books?id=wzERAAAAYAAJ Volume 2] Google Books
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| *[http://www.archive.org/stream/incidentsinindia00pittrich#page/98/mode/2up "Ist Bengal Cavalry"] from ''Incidents in India and Memories of the Mutiny; with some records of Alexander's Horse and the 1st Bengal Cavalry'', page 98 by F W. Pitt 1896 Archive.org
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