In 1757, Robert Clive had raised the 1st Regiment of the Bengal Native Infantry of which two companies were grenadier companies, however, no regiments of grenadiers were formed from the Bengal Army until a battalion was formed in 1779.
By now British sentiment was in favoured of amalgamating their own colonies and the Boer republics into one union, with the primary purpose of gaining possession of the Transvaal gold mines. The Premier of the Cape Colony, Sir Cecil Rhodes, first tried to achieve this union through a putsch that failed due to wariness on the part of Paul Kruger, President of the Boer Republic.
1 (MC)What was the purpose of the Creel Committee, also known as the Committee on Public Information? to provide intelligence information to the United Statesâ allies in World War I to influence public opinion to support the governmentâs efforts to win World War I to prevent the Central Powers from blocking the United Statesâ efforts to win World War ...