NO BATTLE HONOUR AWARDED AS BRITISH COMPANYS FORCE FAILED TO CAPTURE THE FORT –ONLY CASE IN INDIA IRAN AFGHANISTAN NEPAL ETC

1. BHURTPORE 1805
NO BATTLE HONOUR AWARDED AS BRITISH
COMPANYS FORCE FAILED TO CAPTURE THE FORT –
ONLY CASE IN INDIA IRAN AFGHANISTAN NEPAL
ETC
HM 22ND ( CHESHIRE)
DOI: 10.13140/RG.2.2.22878.38729
EUROPEAN UNITS THAT FAILED
HM 25TH (YORK AND
LANCASTER
BENGAL ARMY UNITS WHICH HAD NO
BENGALIS
HM 71ST HIGHLANDERS HM 76TH (WEST RIDING)
1ST BENGAL EUROPEAN REGIMENT
(ROYAL MUNSTER FUSILIERS)
3RD LIGHT CAVALRY –REBELLED AT MEERUT AND SEIZED DELHI IN 1857
4TH LIGHT CAVALRY-DISARMED AT AMBALLA IN 1857 AND LATER DISBANDED
6TH LIGHT CAVALRY –REBELLED AT JULLUNDHUR AND MARCHED TO DELHI 1857
21ST NATIVE INFANTRY-SURVIVED 1857 –LATER 4/1 PUNJAB AND UNJUSTLY
DISBANDED IN 1931
31ST NATIVE INFANTRY- SURVIVED 1857 AND LATER 1ST BATTALION 7TH RAJPUT
REGIMENT
41ST NATIVE INFANTRY- REBELLED AT SITAPUR IN 1857
FOUR ASSAULTS WERE MOUNTED ON BHURTPORE IN 1805
AND FAILED-THUS NO BATTLE HONOUR WAS GRANTED – A
UNIQUE EXCEPTION IN HISTORY OF BRITISH IN INDIA
AFGHANISTAN NEPAL CHINA BURMA AND IRAN-THE
DISGRACE WAS AVENGED IN 1826 WHEN AN
OVERWHELMINGLY SUPERIOR FORCE CAPTURED THE JAT
FORTRESS
Five Bombay Army infantry battalions