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Revision as of 14:58, 8 September 2009

Summary

3rd Burma War
9 November-28 December 1885
Chronological list of Wars and Campaigns
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Location:
Combatants:
British India Burma
Result:
Medals:
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Category: 3rd Burma War
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3rd Burma War 1885
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In the 1880s British concerns were raised by contacts between the Burmese and the French whose colonial expansion in Indo-China had reached the Burmeses border. When a British company was fined by the Burmese for contraventions of its teak extraction contract, the British demanded arbitration and, when that was refused, issued an ultimatum which would have reduced Burma to a vassal state. When this was not accepted on 9 November 1885 an invasion force under Maj-Gen Harry North Dalrymple Prendergast was sent up the Irrawaddy. By 26 November the envoys from King Thibaw offered to surrender. Thibaw was taken into exile in India and the British annexed the remainder of Burma on 1 January 1886.

Burma Campaign Force

Cavalry

Infantry

2nd Coy Bombay Sappers
Artillery

  • 1st Battery 1st Brigade East Division
  • 5th Battery 1st Brigade South Division
  • 7th Battery 1st Brigade North Division
  • 8th Battery 1st Brigade London Division
  • 9th Battery 1st Brigade Cinque Ports Division
  • No 4 Bombay Mountain Battery
  • No 1 Punjab Mountain Battery


External Links

Third Anglo-Burmese War Wikipedia