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.
The purpose of the First Continental Congress was to repeal Britain's taxes and overturn any other harsh measures.to make a list of the colonists' rights as englishmen NOVANET.he second group of delegates from the colonies was far from  unified, but represented the first attempt at a republican  government for the colonies.    The purpose â¦ of the Second Continental Congress was for the making  of the Declaration of Independence.