1st Madras (European) Fusiliers: Difference between revisions

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1742 Major Stringer Lawrence raised the first troops for the East India Company in Madras in 1742. By 1766 they had three regiments.
1746 known as East India Company European Regiment
1830 renamed HEIC Madras European Regiment
1839 renamed HEIC 1st Madras Europeans
1843 renamed HEIC 1st Madras European Fusiliers
1858 taken into the British Army as the 1st Madras European Fusiliers Regiment
1862 renamed 102nd Regiment of Foot (Royal Madras Fusiliers)
1881 merged with the 103rd Regiment of Foot and became 1st Battalion Royal Dublin Fusiliers
1922 disbanded on the formation of the Irish Free State

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Google Books:

Historical Record of the Honourable East India Company's First Madras European Regiment: Containing an Account of the Establishment of Independent Companies in 1645; Their Formation Into a Regiment in 1748; and Its Subsequent Services to 1842 by James George Smith Neill, Staff Officer published 1843. Page xvi of the introduction (at the very front of the book) mentions the recruitment in the early days of a few Swiss mercenaries, French prisoners of war (after their release), 400 Germans at the Cape of Good Hope in 1795 and more Germans in the Eastern Islands [Amboyna] in 1810.
Services of 102nd Regiment of Foot 1842-1867

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 *'''1816''' India
 *'''1824''' [[1st Burma War]]
-*'''1852''' [2nd Burma War]]
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 *'''1857''' [[Indian Mutiny]]
 *'''1879''' [[Ceylon]]