Gwalior Campaign

Gwalior Campaign
1843
Chronological list of Wars and Campaigns
Location: Gwalior State
Combatants:
British Field Forces	Gwalior State forces
Result: British control of Gwalior
Medals: Gwalior Star
Links:
Category: Category:Gwalior Campaign 1843

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 of Exercise

Lt Gen Sir Hugh Gough commander in chief
Partial list obtained from despatches and casualty returns

Right Wing at Agra

Lt Gen Sir Hugh Gough commanding

Cavalry Division under Maj-Gen Sr J. Thackwell KCB KH

• Brig Cureton's Brigade of Cavalry

• HM 16th Lancers under Lt-Col Macdowell
• Governor General's Bodyguard under Capt Dawkins
• 1st Regiment of Light Cavalry under Major Crommelin
• 4th Irregular Cavalty under Maj Oldfield

• 4th Brigade of Cavalry under Brig Scott CB

• 4th Light Cavalry (Lancers) under Maj Mactier
• 10th Light Cavalry under Lt-Col Pope
• Capt Grant's troop of Bengal Horse Artillery

Artillery under Brigadier Gowan

• Maj Lane's troop 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
• 2nd Regiment of Grenadiers under Lt-Col Hamilton
• 16th Regiment of Grenadiers under Lt-Col Maclaren CB

• 4th Infantry Brigade under Brig Stacy

• 14th Bengal Native Infantry under Lt-Col Gairdner
• 31st Bengal Native Infantry under 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
• 56th Bengal Native Infantry
• Khelat-i-Ghilzai Regiment
• 7th Coy Sappers and Miners

Left Wing at Jhansi

Maj-Gen John Grey commanding

Cavalry

• 16th Lancers
• 11th Cavalry under Maj Fitzgerald
• 8th Light Cavalry
• 8th Irregular Cavalry

Infantry

• HM 3rd Buffs under Lt-Col Clunie
• 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 Native Infantry under Maj White
• 51st 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 Stubbs

External links

• Gwalior State Wikipedia
  
• Gwalior Campaign Wikipedia
  
• Popular Resistance and the 1843 Uprising Sindhias and the Raj by Amar Farooqui 2011
  
• The history of British India: a chronology by John F. Riddick 2006 1843-44 Gwalior War Google Books
  
• Victorians at War: Gwalior Campaign (1843) Google Books
  
• Gwalior War indohistory.com
  
• Central India Map showing Gwalior University of Chicago

Historical books on-line

• The Life and Campaigns of Hugh, First Viscount Gough, Field-Marshal Vol I by Robert S. Rait 1903 The Gwalior Campaign
  
• Lord Ellenborough's correspondence archive .org
  
• Our Soldiers by William H. G. Kingston 1898 Gwalior Campaign. page 58. archive .org
  
• 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
• “Campaign in Gwalior”, page 24, Recollections of thirty-nine years in the Army : Gwalior and the Battle of Maharajpore, 1843, the Gold Coast of Africa, 1847-48, the Indian Mutiny, 1857-58, the expedition to China, 1860-61, the siege of Paris, 1870-71, etc. by Sir Charles Alexander Gordon, Surgeon-General 1898 Archive.org. The author was surgeon in the 3rd Regiment of Foot during the Gwalior Campaign.