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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==
''The History of the 3rd Battalion 7th Rajput Regiment - Duke of Connaught's Own'' by H. G. Rawlinson. [With plates, including portraits, and maps]. Published London 1941. Available at the British Library UIN: BLL01001795390

== 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
*[http://www.researchingww1.co.uk/7th-rajputs-1st-battalion  "7th (Duke of Connaught's Own) Rajputs in the First World War"] 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
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