India calls it Haifa Day. The regiments that get the credit are the lancers of Jodhpur, Hyderabad and Mysore — cavalry units raised not by Britain directly, but by India’s semi-autonomous princely states, which supplied their own troops to the British war effort. Grouped into the 15th Cavalry Brigade and led into the final charge […]

Cada 23 de septiembre se celebra en Nueva Delhi y Jaipur un curioso evento histórico-militar: el Día de Haifa, en el que el ejército indio conmemora su protagonismo en la batalla homónima de la Primera Guerra Mundial, cuando los regimientos de lanceros de Jodhpur, Hyderabad y Mysore, integrados en la 15ª Brigada de Caballería y […]

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