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{{War|name=Gwalior Campaign |dates=181824 1824 |image=|location=[http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Kitturu Kittur] |combatant1=British Field Force |combatant2= Gwalior State forcesKittur Fort garrison|result= British control of GwaliorKittur District|medal=[http://www.fitzmuseum.cam.ac.uk/coins/collection/watson/page411.html Gwalior Star]|category=[[:Category:Gwalior Campaign 1843|Category:Gwalior Campaign 1843]] '''Minor Campaigns''' |link1= }}
== Summary ==
The British intervened in a succession dispute and defeated the Gwalior army. The Chanderi District was ceded and a British Resident installed to supervise the state government. == Army Mallasarja Desai (ruler) of Exercise ==[[Hugh Gough|Lt Gen Sir Hugh GoughKittur]] commander in chief<br />Partial list obtained from despatches and casualty returns ==== Right Wing at Agra ====, a small district near [[Hugh Gough|Lt Gen Sir Hugh GoughDharwar]] commanding  '''Cavalry Division''' under Maj-Gen Sr J, and his wife Rani Chennamma had a son Shivalingarudra Sarja without children who adopted a male relative, Shivalingappa. Thackwell KCB KH*Brig Cureton's Brigade When Shivalingarudra died in 1824 the British did not recognise the succession of Cavalry:*HM [[16th Lancers]] under Lt-Col Macdowell:*[[Governor General's Bodyguard]] under Capt Dawkins:*[[1st Bengal Light Cavalry|1st Regiment his adopted son and invoked the doctrine of Light Cavalry]] under Major Crommelin:*[[3rd Bengal Cavalry|4th Irregular Cavalty]] under Maj Oldfield *4th Brigade lapse. St John Thackeray, the Collector of Cavalry under Brig Scott CB:*4th Light Cavalry (Lancers) under Maj Mactier:*10th Light Cavalry under Lt-Col Pope:*Capt Grant's Dharwar, went to Kittur with a troop of [[Bengal Horse Artillery]] '''Artillery''' under Brigadier Gowan *Maj Lane's troop horse artillery and a detachment of [[Bengal Horse Artillery]]*Maj Alexander's troop of [[Bengal Horse Artillery]]*No 10 Light Field battery under Brevet-Maj Sanders*17th Light Field Battery under Capt Browne '''2nd Infantry Division''' under Maj-Gen Dennis *3rd Infantry Brigade''' under Maj-Gen Valiant KH:*HM [[40th Regiment of Foot]] under Maj Stopford:*[[102nd Prince of Wales's Own Grenadiers|2nd Regiment of Grenadiers]] under Lt-Col Hamilton:*16th Regiment of Grenadiers under Lt-Col Maclaren CB *4th Infantry Brigade under Brig Stacy:*[[14th Regiment of Bengal the 5th Native Infantry|14th Bengal Native Infantry]] under Lt-Col Gairdner:*[[31st Regiment and put a guard on the treasury. Rani Chennamma organised resistance to the British who were shut out of Bengal Native Infantry|31st Bengal Native Infantry]] under the fort and Mr Thackeray and two others killed on 23 October. Lt-Col Weston:*43rd Light Infantry under Maj Nash:*16th Regiment of Grenadiers under Lt-Col Maclaren CB '''3rd Infantry Division''' under Maj-Gen Littler*Brig Wright's Brigade :*HM [[39th Regiment of Foot]]:*Deacon was despatched with a field force which invested the fort and obtained its surrender on 4 December. Rani Chennamma was imprisoned in Bailhongal Fort where she died on 21 February 1829. Her general [[56th Regiment of Bengal Native Infantry|56th Bengal Native Infantry]]http:*[[12th (Khelat-i-Ghilzie) Pioneers|Khelat-i-Ghilzai Regiment//en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Sangolli_Rayanna Sangolli Rayanna]]:*7th Coy Sappers fought a guerrilla campaign until he was captured in 1829 and Miners ==== Left Wing at Jhansi ====Maj-Gen John Grey commanding  '''Cavalry'''*[[16th Lancers]]*11th Cavalry under Maj Fitzgerald*8th Light Cavalry*[[6th Bengal Cavalry|8th Irregular Cavalry]] '''Infantry'''*HM [[3rd Regiment of Foot|3rd Buffs]] under Lt-Col Clunie*[[39th Regiment of Bengal Native Infantry|39th Regiment of Native Infantry]] under Brig Yates & Maj Earle*Company of Sappers and Miners under Lt Maxwell '''2nd Infantry Brigade''' under Act Brig Anderson KH*HM [[50th Regiment of Foot]] under Maj Pettit*[[50th Regiment of Bengal Native Infantry|50th Native Infantry]] under Maj White*[[51st Regiment of Bengal Native Infantry|51st Native Infantry]]*[[58th Regiment of Bengal Native Infantry|58th Native Infantry]] under Capt Parker '''Artillery'''*Two troops of [[Bengal Horse Artillery]]*3rd Brigade of Horse Artillery under Maj Geddes*No 16 Light Field battery under Lt Olpherts *Sipree Contingent under Brig Stubbshanged.
== External links ==
*[http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Gwalior_State Gwalior StateRani_Chennamma Rani Chennamma] Wikipedia<br>*[http://enwww.wikipediathehindu.orgcom/wiki/Gwalior_Campaign Gwalior Campaign] Wikipedia<br todays-paper/>*[http://books.google.co.uk/books?id=dXHomTB9tTAC&pg=PA65&lpg=PA65&dq=Majtp-Gen+John+Grey+1843&source=bl&ots=vvdjHwhFpQ&sig=74NbH4fYJ7nFxTkJU6Ik7jRTGCY&hl=en&ei=MpeyTvTUFInG8QPJ66XhBA&sa=X&oi=book_result&ct=result&resnum=7&ved=0CEYQ6AEwBg#v=onepage&q=Maj-Gen%20John%20Grey%201843&f=false Popular Resistance and the 1843 Uprising] Sindhias and the Raj by Amar Farooqui 2011<br />*''The history of British India: a chronology'' by John F. Riddick 2006 [http:/features/books.google.co.uk/books?id=Es6x4u_g19UC&pg=PA47&lpg=PA47&dq=Kolhapur+Campaign+1844&source=bl&ots=KfsZb6m2xu&sig=_ByeH3UHr5_W9HGugbYjzvqiPsE&hl=en&ei=7pq3TrbII9OS8gPo3oCmBQ&sa=X&oi=book_result&ct=result&resnum=6&ved=0CEMQ6AEwBQ#v=onepage&q=Kolhapur%20Campaign%201844&f=false 1843tp-44 Gwalior War] Google Books<br editorialfeatures/>*[http://booksarticle517712.google.co.uk/books?id=HvE_Pa_ZlfsC&pg=PA157&dq=Gwalior+Campaign+1843&ei=E6S2SabuB5DUlQSO1Ij9Bg#PPA157,M1 Victorians at War: Gwalior Campaign (1843)ece Article in The Hindu 13 July 2010] Google Books<br>*[http://www.indohistory.com/the_gwalior_war.html Gwalior War] indohistorythehindu.com <br>*[http://dsal.uchicago.edu/maps/gazetteer/images/gazetteer_V9_pg392.jpg Central India Map showing Gwalior] University of Chicago
==== Historical books on-line ====
*''The Life and Campaigns of Hugh, First Viscount Gough, FieldAsiatic Journal Vol III Sept-Marshal Vol IDec 1830'' by Robert S. Rait 1903 [http://wwwbooks.archivegoogle.co.orguk/stream/cu31924088002120books?id=_CYYAAAAYAAJ&pg=PA218&lpg=PA218&dq=St+John+Thackeray&source=bl&ots=9cgrPec5Lr&sig=QLYaqhNnnHdqaTK5uyc-l19MOsU&hl=en&sa=X&ei=q9OGUPL3AbSN0wW6yICwBQ&ved=0CDEQ6AEwAA#page/n350/mode/1up The Gwalior Campaignv=onepage&q=St%20John%20Thackeray&f=false Occurrences at Kittoor]Google Books<br />*''Asiatic Journal Vol I Third Series May - October 1843'' [http://wwwbooks.archivegoogle.co.orguk/stream/historyindianad00barogoogbooks?id=OLdNAAAAcAAJ&pg=PA59&lpg=PA59&dq=St+John+Thackeray,+Dharwar&source=bl&ots=X5Ng09xfqK&sig=1ovo35hnYyeV7deaS8ouM4UBM-g&hl=en&sa=X&ei=gIGGUP3pMeqq0QXZyYCYBQ&ved=0CD4Q6AEwAg#page/n436/mode/1up Lord Ellenborough's correspondencev=onepage&q=St%20John%20Thackeray%2C%20Dharwar&f=false Kittoor Insurrection] archive .orggoogle Books<br />*''Our SoldiersHandbook of the Bombay Presidency 1881'' by William H. G. Kingston 1898 [http://www.archive.org/stream/Kingston_Our_Soldiershandbookbombayp00firgoog#page/n57n260/mode/1up Gwalior Campaign2up Account of Kittur Rising and Thackeray's memorial at Dharwad] archive .org<br />*[http://books.google.com.au/books?id=Q9wRAAAAYAAJ&pg=PA236 Gwalior, 1843-44], from "Memoir of Major-General Sir Henry Marion Durand, K.C.S.I., C.B., R.E." by Lieutenant C.R, Low, (Late) Indian Navy, page 236 ''Colburn's United Service Magazine and Naval and Military Journal, 1871 Part 1'' Google Books
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