1759-1956: 'FOOTPRINTS' OF : *THE FIRST PUNJABIS: WARS & WARRIORS

[ Editors Note for the readers: A Regimental History is usually read by relatively few, but this particular story, covering as it does nearly the whole period of the British connection with India, can be of interest to the general reader; and those to whose fore-fathers, some who served, and some who may be still serving; or living in these regions]

I. 1759 -The Birth of the REGIMENT, in the Madras ARMY

• 1760 The Battle of Wandiwash,
• The Seige of Madura
• The Outbreak of the First Mysore War
• 1767 Chengham - Tiruvannamalai;
• Operations against Tanjore
• Capture of Pondicherry.

II 1780-1784 : Second Mysore Wars,

• The Resumption of Hostilities,
• 1780-The First Battle of Polilur
• Operations by Sir Eyre Coote
• Porto Novo
• The Second Battle of Polilur
• The Battle of Sholinghur
• Operations in the South,
• 1783-4 -- Camp

Ill 1784-1800 THE THIRD AND FOURTH MYSORE WARS, 35

• The Resumption of Hostilities under General Medows -
• Operations under Lord Cornwallis of the 29th Madras Battalion (5/ Ist)-
• The First Battle of Seringapatam-
• Operations against the French -
• Operations of the Subsidiary Force -
• 1796 The Second Battle of Seringapatam -
• Operations Against Dhandia Waugh -
• Death of Colonel Dalrymple.
  
  
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  HISTORY OF THE FIRST PUNJAB REGIMENT: 1759-1956 : BY MAJOR MOHAMMED IBRAHIM QURESHI [ ALDERSHOT GALE & POLDEN LTD 1958 ]

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