The Connaught Rangers were among the most famous regiments of the British Army raised in Ireland. In 1920 they were stationed in the foothills of the Himalayas in the Punjab, a province of British India. While stationed far from Ireland, tensions grew in the ranks of the Connaught Rangers over what other units of the British Army were doing in Ireland. In June 1920 at the height of the war of Independence, a mutiny began that lead to the deaths of four people and the courts martial of sixty-one soldiers.