Goorkhas or Gurkhas, a brave and powerful native race in Nepal claiming Hindu descent; in 1814 they were subdued by the British, and have since rendered valuable service to Britain in the Mutiny, in the Afghan and in the Sikh Wars; there are now ten regiments of Goorkhas.
Definition taken from The Nuttall Encyclopædia, edited by the Reverend James Wood (1907)
Goodyear, Charles * Gordian Knot