Kings and Generals animated historical documentary series on the armies and tactics now covers the Gurkhas, an invincible ...

There were two kinds of soldiers’ gardens in British India: regimental and company. Regimental gardens were worked by the men for fixed rates of pay, or by local people under supervision, and ...

(How the British East India Company became the world’s most powerful business.) In 1857, Indian soldiers mutinied—prompting the British government to dissolve the company and take over India.

In 1841, the East India Company put a small quantity of Edwards’s Patent Preserved Potato on board three ships named Seringapatam, ... Preserved Potato was fed to British troops in the Crimea.

Impressed by the valor displayed by Nepali Gurkha soldiers in the Anglo-Nepal War, the British East India Company started recruiting Nepali soldiers into a Gurkha regiment in 1815.