80th Carnatic Infantry
MILITARY UNIT
21st Carnatic Battalion; 21st Madras Battalion; 20th Madras Native Infantry; 20th Madras Infantry; 80th Infantry; 80th Carnatic Light Infantry
The 80th Carnatic Infantry were an infantry regiment of the British Indian Army. They could trace their origins to 1777, when they were raised as the 21st Carnatic Battalion, by enlisting men from the 2nd, the 6th, the 12th and the 15th Carnatic Battalions.