East India Company Regiments
Between the years of 1746 and 1830 the Honorable East India Company European Regiment looked after that organisation's interests in British Colonial India. The regiment was renamed HEIC Madras European Regiment in 1830, the HEIC 1st Madras Europeans in 1839, and the HEIC 1st Madras European Fusiliers in 1843.
Between the years 1858 and 1861, following the uprising commonly known as the Indian Mutiny, the regiment was taken into the British Army as the 1st Madras European Fusiliers regiment.
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