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Bengal Infantry
== Bengal Infantry ==
I am trying to get to grips with the chronology of the various Bengal Infantry Regiments before the Mutiny. The archive.org volume [http://www.archive.org/stream/anhistoricalacc00willgoog#page/n7/mode/2up here] has been very useful if a bit muddly but it only goes up to the reorganisation of 1796. I attach the spreadsheet I have made to try to analyse the changes. It contains a number of unresolved contradictions and is not helped by the relatively few details in the regiments.org website [http://web.archive.org/web/20071015183834/www.regiments.org/regiments/southasia/lists/ia1859b.htm here]. Our list, in common with others, uses the titles as at the reorganisation of 1824 and I think these remained unchanged until 1857. I have not been able to find any details of the 1824 changes. With your superior internet powers, have you any suggestion where I can look further?--[[User:Symorsebrown|Sy]] 03:03, 11 January 2010 (PST)
:Great template. I will of course add it from now on. As you can see I have made some progress revising the BNI pages. I have a feeling I have done the easy bit as I have got to regiments which were formed after the 1796 and before the 1824 reorganisation. I am not sure yet how we track them. For instance the 14th BNI started in 1765 but its number changed to 19th in 1775. The 24th BNI became 14th in 1775 but mutinied and was disbanded in 1795. The 20th became the 14th in 1795 but changed to 2nd Btn 10th in 1796. A new 14th was formed in 1824 from 1st Btn 10th and it is the 1824 numbers that we are using in our list. Perhaps we should have a table with the regiment numbers listed vertically and cells along the row to link to the pedigree of the regiment in 1764, 1775, 1781, 1796 etc. Any thoughts?--[[User:Symorsebrown|Sy]] 00:47, 16 January 2010 (PST)
