The 81st Pioneers were an infantry regiment of the British Indian Army.
They then took part in the Battle of Seringapatam in the Fourth Anglo-Mysore War.
Next they were involved in the Third Anglo-Maratha War, where they fought at the Battle of Nagpore in 1817.
They returned to India and took part in the Tirah Campaign in 1897, attached to the Second Division, they did not see any serious fighting until late in the campaign, when they served as the divisional rearguard during a withdrawal 28 December 1897.
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