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the East India Company, who represented a tiny proportion of the troops present; the native Indian troops (sepoys) who formed the vast majority. Seventy-four battalions in the Bengal Army alone existed at the commencement of hostilities in addition to 8 light and lancer cavalry regiments and 18 irregular cavalry regiments. The sepoys were often used as garrisons and baggage train guards to leave the fighting to the European soldiers predominantly. In most infantry and cavalry

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