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'Engineer Corps' text corrected with reference to Royal Engineer Museum Library
*'''1812''' Corps of Royal Military Artificers became Corps of Royal Sappers and Miners
*'''1856''' Royal Engineers and Royal Sappers and Miners became a unified corps as the '''Corps of Royal Engineers'''
*'''1862''' absorbed 1 April, the three engineer corps of the [[East India Company]]:- [[Bengal Engineers]], [[Bombay Engineers]] and the [[Madras Engineers]] were amalgamated into the Corps of Royal Engineers absorbing the British officers and men <ref name=REEng>[http://web.archive.org/web/20090725060217/http://www.remuseum.org.uk/corpshistory/rem_corps_part10.htm The Royal Engineers Museum and Library “Corps History Part 10 – Engineers of the engineer corps of the Honourable East India CompanyArmy 1750-1862”]; Retrieved 17 Aug 2016</ref>.
==Also see==
*[[Bengal Sappers and Miners]]
