[QUOTE=Andreas]The French also had a colony near Assam, Chandernagore (today Chandannagar)
in West Bengal.
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Thank you Andreas! That is what I was looking for, but all the French colonial activity I could find in India was down further in Pondicherry etc.
The much nearer geographic location with this brings greater plausibility to the association between French arms and this unit.
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