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Addiscombe Military Seminary. Coordinates: 51.37693°N 0.07947°W. The East India Company Military Seminary was a British military academy at Addiscombe, Surrey, in what is now the London Borough of Croydon. It opened in 1809 and closed in 1861. Its purpose was to train young officers to serve in the East India Company 's own army in India .
The East India Company Military Seminary was a British military academy at Addiscombe, Surrey, in what is now the London Borough of Croydon. It was opened in 1809 and closed in 1861. Its purpose was to train young officers to serve in the East India Company’s private army in India.
The East India Company Military Seminary was a British military academy at Addiscombe, Surrey, in what is now the London Borough of Croydon. It was opened in 1809 and closed in 1861. Its purpose was to train young officers to serve in the East India Company’s private army in India.
IOR/L/MIL/9/333-357. Title: Addiscombe Military Seminary. Description: By the end of the eighteenth century the East India Company had recognised that cadets for the technical branches of its armies needed a better training than that received under the 'direct' system, and from 1798, a number of artillery and enginer cadets were educated at the ...
- 1809-1862
- Addiscombe Military Seminary
- IOR/L/MIL/9/333-357
Sir James Law Lushington, Director and Chairman of the East India Company, founded an Addiscombe scholar- ship at Cheltenham, of which he was a vice-president ( Naval and Military Gazette (December, 1846) 825).
Addiscombe Military Seminary was the the seminary established by the East India Company near to Croydon in England for its army cadets. It opened in 1808 and closed in 1859.
In 1809, Emelius Ratcliffe sold Addiscombe Place to the British East India Company for £15,500, whereupon it became a military academy known as the Addiscombe Military Seminary. [2] Cadets were trained as officers for one of the Company's three Presidency Armies.
