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Bengal Lancers may refer to numerous regiments of the
British Indian Army The British Indian Army, commonly referred to as the Indian Army, was the main military of the British Raj before its dissolution in 1947. It was responsible for the defence of the British Indian Empire, including the princely states, which co ...
, many continuing in the
Indian Army The Indian Army is the land-based branch and the largest component of the Indian Armed Forces. The President of India is the Supreme Commander of the Indian Army, and its professional head is the Chief of Army Staff (COAS), who is a four- ...
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Individual units

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1st Bengal Lancers The 1st Horse (Skinner's Horse) is a regiment of the Armoured Corps of the Indian Army. It traces its origins as a cavalry regiment from the times of the East India Company, followed by its service in the British Indian Army and finally, afte ...
* 2nd Bengal Lancers * 4th Bengal Lancers * 6th Bengal Lancers *
7th Lancers The 7th Hariana Lancers was a cavalry regiment in the British Indian Army. It was formed in 1846 and in 1921 was amalgamated with the 6th King Edward's Own Cavalry to form the 18th King Edward's Own Cavalry. The unit was formed in 1846 as a regime ...
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8th Lancers The 8th Lancers was (until 1922) one of the 39 cavalry regiments of the British Indian Army. It had originally been part of the army of the East India Company before passing into the reorganised Bengal Army of the post-Mutiny period and ultimately i ...
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10th Bengal Lancers 4th Horse (Hodson's Horse) is a part of the Armoured Corps of the Indian Army, which had its beginnings as an irregular cavalry regiment during the time of the Indian Rebellion of 1857. Formation The regiment was raised during the turbulent tim ...
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11th Bengal Lancers The 5th Horse is an armoured regiment of the Pakistan Army. It was previously known as the 5th King Edward's Own Probyn's Horse, which was a regular cavalry regiment of the British Indian Army. It was formed in 1921 by the amalgamation of the 11th ...
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13th Bengal Lancers The 6th Lancers is an armoured regiment of the Pakistan Army. Previously, it was known as the 6th Duke of Connaught's Own Lancers (Watson's Horse), and was a regular cavalry regiment in the British Indian Army. It was formed in 1921 by amalgamati ...
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14th Bengal Lancers The 14th Murray's Jat Lancers, also sometimes known as the Murray's Jat Horse, was a cavalry regiment of the British Indian Army. The regiment was first raised at Aligarh as an irregular cavalry unit in 1857 as the Jat Horse Yeomanry, for the Eas ...
* 17th Bengal Lancers * 19th Bengal Lancers * 41st Bengal Lancers


See also

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The Lives of a Bengal Lancer (book) ''The Lives of a Bengal Lancer'' is a 1930 autobiography of British cavalry officer Francis Yeats-Brown published by The Viking Press. The autobiography's release was met with highly positive reviews and Yeats-Brown was awarded the James Tait Bla ...
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The Lives of a Bengal Lancer (film) ''The Lives of a Bengal Lancer'' is a 1935 American adventure film starring Gary Cooper, directed by Henry Hathaway, and written by Grover Jones, William Slavens McNutt, Waldemar Young, John L. Balderston, and Achmed Abdullah. The setting and ...
* Tales of the 77th Bengal Lancers (television series) * Bengal Lancers in the St. Louis Veiled Prophet Parade and Ball British Indian Army regiments Armoured and cavalry regiments of the Indian Army from 1947