The colours of the Connaught Rangers hanging in St. Nicholas church in Galway city.
The Connaught Rangers were sent out to India in July 1857 to help supress what the British called The Indian Mutiny – a suppression that resulted in thousands of Indian deaths, mainly in revenge massacres by the British Army after the mutiny had been quashed.
I’m in Banaglore this week – hopefully I’ll get on a bit better with the locals than did the Rangers.
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