DA094 - Stalwart Sikhs Cavalry 7th (Kumaon Battalion)

7th (Kumaon Battalion)

Sikh Cuirassiers wearing French Cuirass and Indian Helmet

Defeat in its wars with the British in 1839–42 and 1858–60 underlined the utter ineffectiveness of China’s antiquated armed forces and inspired a series of bloody insurrections between the 1850s and 1870s which resulted in the loss of tens of millions of lives

Trews of Royal Stuart tartan (predominantly red with blue and white lines)

All but two of the models shown here are supplied with our already flattened and shaped wire pikes

DA094 - Stalwart Sikhs Cavalry 7th (Kumaon Battalion)To the British of the later nineteenth century the Sikhs were the epitome of stalwart native soldiery. Small units of them pop up all over East Africa during the Scramble, backing up local levies and generally saving the Empire. Add more Sikhs and mountain Artillery from our NW Frontier range, or use these "Darkest Africa" Sikhs in the any of the other battles and campaigns that they fought in all over the world. 8miniatures. Supplied unpainted.