Yeah, lets wit and see if he means it this time ;)

Well getting local troops was the only way possible. Europeans werent familar enough with this tropic climate, shipping troops over took months and - more importantly:

The British army wouldnt allow the EIC to regularly recruit British people, for obvious reasons.

General rule of thumb: Around 85-90% of the Indian Army were Hindus.

At 1858, EIC Army was at about 360.000-400.000 strength, of which about 40.000 were Europeans.

2nd battle of Coroneia. Thebans had a deep column and confronted the wide Phalanx of Agesilaos II. Agesialos was gravely injured and the Phalanx broken.