5th Cavalry Regiment was a military unit of the British Indian Army and the subsequent post-independence Indian Army. The regiment was raised at Bareilly as the 7th Irregular Cavalry in 1841 as a result of the First Afghan War. In 1861 it was renamed the 5th Regiment of Bengal Cavalry. The pre-Indian Mutiny of 1857 Bengal Light Cavalry regiments had been lost to mutiny or disbandment leaving the number free. In 1901 it was 5th Bengal Cavalry.
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