Up to this time he had seen no active service, but in 1843 his was the one European regiment in the small force with which Sir Charles Napier won the battle of Miani (Meanee) (17 February), and it bore the brunt of that action, in which two thousand men defeated thirty-five thousand.
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First, at Meanee, India, where it was said that 500 British soldiers defeated 35,000 Indians.
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