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== Summary ==
== Summary ==
[http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Colin_Campbell,_1st_Baron_Clyde Sir Colin Campbell's] plan for the pacification of Central India was for separate columns to be formed from the two Presidencies of Bombay and Madras. The Bombay force, under the command of [http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Hugh_Rose,_1st_Baron_Strathnairn Sir Hugh Rose], should march from Mhow to Gwalior and Jhansi, and the Madras force, which was to be led by [http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Patrick_Grant Sir Patrick Grant], should march towards Nagpore. These two columns were to act in concert to defeat rebel forces under the command of [http://www.britannica.com/eb/topic-582772/Tantia-Topi Tantia Topi]. The major operations of the Central India Field Force under Rose and the Saugor and Nerbudda Field Force under [http://www.archerfamily.org.uk/bio/whitlock_gc.html Whitlock] lasted for the whole of 1858 and resulted in the destruction of Tantia Tope's army as a significant threat. Other units taking part were the Rajputana Field Force under [http://www.oxforddnb.com/index/101023755/ General Henry Roberts] and the Malwa Field Force under [http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/John_Michel_(British_Army_officer) Maj-Gen John Michel].
[[Colin Campbell|Sir Colin Campbell's]] plan for the pacification of Central India was for separate columns to be formed from the two Presidencies of Bombay and Madras. The Bombay force, under the command of [[Hugh Rose|Gen Sir Hugh Rose]], should march from Mhow to Gwalior and Jhansi, and the Madras force, which was to be led by [http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Patrick_Grant Sir Patrick Grant], should march towards Nagpore. These two columns were to act in concert to defeat rebel forces under the command of [[Tatya Tope]]. The major operations of the '''Central India Field Force''' under Rose and the '''Saugor and Nerbudda Field Force''' under [http://www.archerfamily.org.uk/bio/whitlock_gc.html Whitlock] lasted for the whole of 1858 and resulted in the destruction of Tantia Tope's army as a significant threat. Other units taking part were the '''Rajputana Field Force''' under [http://www.oxforddnb.com/index/101023755/ General Henry Roberts] and the '''Malwa Field Force''' under [http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/John_Michel_(British_Army_officer) Maj-Gen John Michel].


== Central India Field Force ==
==Related articles ==
For details of events during this period see the following articles
<div style="column-count:2;-moz-column-count:2;-webkit-column-count:2">
{|
|22 October 1857
|[[Battle of Dhar]]
|-
|21 November 1857
|[[Battle of Mundesore]]
|-
|25 November 1857
|[[Relief of Neemuch]]
|-
|24-30 January 1858
|[[Siege of Rathguhr]]
|-
|3 February 1858
|[[Relief of Saugor]]
|-
|3 March 1858
|[[Battle of Mudanpore Pass]]
|-
|14 March 1858
|[[Battle of Chundehree]]
|-
|23 March-3 April 1858
|[[Battle of Jhansi]]
|-
|30 March 1858
|[[Battle of Kotah]]
|-
|1 April 1858
|[[Battle of Betwa River]]
|-
|19 April 1858
|[[Battle of Bhowragarh]]
|-
|5 May 1858
|[[Battle of Loharree Mud Fort]]
|-
|7 May 1858
|[[Battle of Koonch]]
|-
|22 May 1858
|[[Battle of Kalpi]]
|-
|22 May 1858
|[[Battle of Humeerpore]]
|-
|6 June 1858
|[[Occupation of Kirwee]]
|-
|16 June 1858
|[[Battle of Morar]]
|-
|16-20 June 1858
|[[Battle of Gwalior 1858|Battle of Gwalior]]
|-
|17 June 1858
|[[Battle of Kota-ki-Serai]]
|-
|21 June 1858
|[[Battle of Jowra Alipore]]
|-
|8 August 1858
|[[Battle of Sunganeer]]
|-
|14 August 1858
|[[Battle of Kattara]]
|-
|6 September 1858
|[[Forcing Punghatee Pass]]
|-
|15 September 1858
|[[Battle of Beorora]]
|-
|9 October 1858
|[[Battle of Mungrowlee]]
|-
|19 October 1858
|[[Battle of Sindwah]]
|-
|25 October 1858
|[[Battle of Koorai]]
|-
|2 January 1859
|[[Battle of Khoree Kurarayah]]
|-
|16 May 1859
|[[Battle of Richwa]]
|}
</div>
 
=== Central India Field Force ===
[[Hugh Rose|Maj-Gen Sir Hugh Rose KCB]] commanding<br>
'''1st Brigade (Brigadier Stuart)'''
'''1st Brigade (Brigadier Stuart)'''
*One Squadron of HM [[14th Light Dragoons]].
*One Squadron of HM [[14th Light Dragoons]].
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*[[125th Napier's Rifles|25th Bombay Native Infantry]]
*[[125th Napier's Rifles|25th Bombay Native Infantry]]
*Two Batteries of European Artillery
*Two Batteries of European Artillery
* Sappers & Miners Detachment<br>
*Bombay Sappers & Miners Detachment<br>
'''2nd Brigade'''
'''2nd Brigade'''
*Headquarters HM [[14th Light Dragoons]]
*Headquarters HM [[14th Light Dragoons]]
*Headquarters  [[33rd Queen Victoria's Own Light Cavalry|3rd Light Cavalry]]
*Headquarters  [[33rd Queen Victoria's Own Light Cavalry|3rd Light Cavalry]]
*[[3rd Bombay (European) Regiment|3rd Bombay European Regiment]]
*[[3rd Bombay (European) Regiment|3rd Bombay European Regiment]]
*Bombay NI
*24th Bombay Infantry
*Battery Horse Artillery
*No 1 Troop, Horse Artillery
*One Field Battery
*One Field Battery
*Madras Sappers and Miners
*Madras Sappers and Miners
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*Wing of [[5th Infantry, Hyderabad Contingent|5th Hyderabad Infantry]]
*Wing of [[5th Infantry, Hyderabad Contingent|5th Hyderabad Infantry]]


==Saugor and Nerbudda Field Force==
===Saugor and Nerbudda Field Force===
'''British Army Regiments:'''
'''British Army Regiments:'''
*[[12th Light Dragoons|12th Lancers]] (left wing)
*[[12th Light Dragoons|12th Lancers]] (left wing)
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*2 companies of Sappers
*2 companies of Sappers
*Hyderabad Green Horse ([[Deccan Horse|2nd Cavalry Hyderabad Contingent]]?)
*Hyderabad Green Horse ([[Deccan Horse|2nd Cavalry Hyderabad Contingent]]?)
===Malwa Field Force===
Brig C S Stuart, 1st Bombay Europeans, commanding
*14th Light Dragoons (left wing) under Major Gall
*3rd Cavalry, Hyderabad Contingent
*25th Bombay Infantry
*Four coys, HM 86th Regiment


== External Links ==
== External Links ==
[http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Central_India_Campaign_(1858) Central India Campaign] Wikipedia<br>
*[http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Central_India_Campaign_(1858) Central India Campaign] Wikipedia<br>
[http://web.archive.org/web/20060618070003/defencejournal.com/2000/feb/central-indian.htm The Central India Campaign] Article by Maj Agha Humayun Amin
*''1857: A Brief Political and Military Analysis'' by Maj (Retd) Agha Humayun Amin [http://web.archive.org/web/20060618070003/defencejournal.com/2000/feb/central-indian.htm Chapter Seven: "The Central India Campaign"] defencejournal.com (Pakistan) February 2000 Issue, now archived. <br>
==== Historical books on-line ====
 
[http://www.google.com/books?id=-TsQAAAAYAAJ&printsec=frontcover&source=gbs_slider_thumb#v=onepage&q=&f=false Recollections of the Campaign in Malwa and Central India by Ast Surgeon John Henry Sylvester 1860] Google Books
==== Historical books online ====
*''Selections from the letters, despatches and other state papers preserved in the Military Department of the Government of India, 1857-58'' edited by George W. Forrest, Director of Records of the Government of India. [http://www.archive.org/stream/selectionsfromle04forruoft#page/n5/mode/2up  Volume IV] [Central India] 1912 Archive.org
:''A History of the Indian Mutiny; reviewed and illustrated from original documents'' by G W Forrest. [http://www.archive.org/stream/historyofindianm03forr#page/n9/mode/2up Volume III], [Central India]. 1912 Archive.org
*[https://books.google.com.au/books?id=vbpXAAAAcAAJ&pg=PP7 ''A Sortie from Fort St. George; being a Narrative of the Services of the Madras Troops under Major-General Whitlock ... during the War in Central India ... 1858-59'']. By one who served in the campaigns. Re-printed from the ''Madras Daily Times'' 1860 Google Books.  Also available as a [http://access.bl.uk/item/viewer/ark:/81055/vdc_100023386178.0x000001  British Library Digital file].
*[http://www.google.com/books?id=-TsQAAAAYAAJ&printsec=frontcover&source=gbs_slider_thumb#v=onepage&q=&f=false ''Recollections of the Campaign in Malwa and Central India''] by Asst Surgeon John Henry Sylvester 1860 (Google Books)<br />
*[http://books.google.com/books?id=6GwBAAAAQAAJ&pg=PR4  ''Central India during the Rebellion of 1857 and 1858''] by Thomas Lowe, Medical Officer to the Corps of Madras Sappers and Miners 1860 (Google Books)<br>
*[http://www.archive.org/stream/revoltincentral00burtgoog#page/n4/mode/2up ''The Revolt in Central India 1857-1859''] compiled by Army Headquarters, India 1908 (archive.org)<br>
*[https://hdl.handle.net/2027/nyp.33433081656500?urlappend=%3Bseq=342 "The Storming of Jhansi: A Passage in the History of the Royal County Downs" [Royal Downshires, or 86th Regiment of Foot<nowiki>]</nowiki>] by J. D. B. page 344 ''The United Service Magazine 1878, Part 1'' HathiTrust Digital Library.
*[https://archive.org/details/generalsirrichar00thor ''General Sir Richard Meade and the Feudatory States of Central and Southern India; a record of forty-three year's service as Soldier, Political Officer and Administrator''] by Thomas Henry Thornton 1898 Archive.org. Born 1821, Sir Richard served in the Bengal Army from 1838 for nearly twenty years. At the outbreak of the Indian Mutiny he was Brigade-Major of the Gwalior Contingent which mutinied. He later raised Meade’s Horse. Subsequently in 1859 he was appointed Political Agent at Gwalior,  finally retiring in March 1881.
*[http://books.google.com.au/books?id=6wbmMHtf-FwC&pg=PA310 "The Mutiny"] page 310 ''Memorials of Service in India‬: ‪from the correspondence of the late Major Samuel Charters Macpherson,‬ Political Agent at Gwalior during the Mutiny'' 1865 Google Books
*[https://books.google.com.au/books?id=7HEBAAAAQAAJ&pg=PP5 ''The Mutinies in Rajpootana, being personal narrative of the Mutiny at Nusseerabad, with subsequent residence at Jodhpore, and journey across the desert into Sind, together with an account of the outbreak at Neemuch, and mutiny of the Jodhpore Legion at Erinpoora, and attack on Mount Aboo''] by Iltudus Thomas Prichard. late of the Bengal Army 1860 Google Books. He had served with the [[15th Bengal Native Infantry]].<ref>[https://web.archive.org/web/20190508034757/https://www.peterharrington.co.uk/the-mutinies-in-rajpootana-33157.html peterharrington.co.uk] </ref>
*"An Old Soldier on the Indian Mutiny". From the diary of Private William Taylor, K Company, [[71st Regiment of Foot|71st HLI]], who served in the Central Indian Campaign in the Bullock Battery, and also the Camel Corps.
:[https://books.google.com.au/books?id=JOuzfgh0BpgC&pg=PA889 Page 889] July 1903; [https://books.google.com.au/books?id=JOuzfgh0BpgC&pg=PA921  page 921] October 1903; [https://books.google.com.au/books?id=JOuzfgh0BpgC&pg=PA30 page 30] January 1904; [https://books.google.com.au/books?id=JOuzfgh0BpgC&pg=PA130 page 130] October 1904. ''Highland Light Infantry Chronicle''. Google Books.
 
==== Maps====
*[http://dsal.uchicago.edu/reference/gaz_atlas_1909/fullscreen.html?object=44 Central India map] Imperial Gazetteer of India Vol 26 Atlas 1909
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[[Category:Indian Mutiny|  Central India Campaign]]
[[Category:Indian Mutiny|  Central India Campaign]]
[[Category:Campaigns with FIBIS Battle Maps|Central India Campaign]]
[[Category:Campaigns with FIBIS Battle Maps|Central India Campaign]]
==References==
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Summary

Sir Colin Campbell's plan for the pacification of Central India was for separate columns to be formed from the two Presidencies of Bombay and Madras. The Bombay force, under the command of Gen Sir Hugh Rose, should march from Mhow to Gwalior and Jhansi, and the Madras force, which was to be led by Sir Patrick Grant, should march towards Nagpore. These two columns were to act in concert to defeat rebel forces under the command of Tatya Tope. The major operations of the Central India Field Force under Rose and the Saugor and Nerbudda Field Force under Whitlock lasted for the whole of 1858 and resulted in the destruction of Tantia Tope's army as a significant threat. Other units taking part were the Rajputana Field Force under General Henry Roberts and the Malwa Field Force under Maj-Gen John Michel.

Related articles

For details of events during this period see the following articles

22 October 1857 Battle of Dhar
21 November 1857 Battle of Mundesore
25 November 1857 Relief of Neemuch
24-30 January 1858 Siege of Rathguhr
3 February 1858 Relief of Saugor
3 March 1858 Battle of Mudanpore Pass
14 March 1858 Battle of Chundehree
23 March-3 April 1858 Battle of Jhansi
30 March 1858 Battle of Kotah
1 April 1858 Battle of Betwa River
19 April 1858 Battle of Bhowragarh
5 May 1858 Battle of Loharree Mud Fort
7 May 1858 Battle of Koonch
22 May 1858 Battle of Kalpi
22 May 1858 Battle of Humeerpore
6 June 1858 Occupation of Kirwee
16 June 1858 Battle of Morar
16-20 June 1858 Battle of Gwalior
17 June 1858 Battle of Kota-ki-Serai
21 June 1858 Battle of Jowra Alipore
8 August 1858 Battle of Sunganeer
14 August 1858 Battle of Kattara
6 September 1858 Forcing Punghatee Pass
15 September 1858 Battle of Beorora
9 October 1858 Battle of Mungrowlee
19 October 1858 Battle of Sindwah
25 October 1858 Battle of Koorai
2 January 1859 Battle of Khoree Kurarayah
16 May 1859 Battle of Richwa

Central India Field Force

Maj-Gen Sir Hugh Rose KCB commanding
1st Brigade (Brigadier Stuart)

2nd Brigade

Contingent Hyderabad State

Saugor and Nerbudda Field Force

British Army Regiments:

Native Regiments: TBC

Malwa Field Force

Brig C S Stuart, 1st Bombay Europeans, commanding

  • 14th Light Dragoons (left wing) under Major Gall
  • 3rd Cavalry, Hyderabad Contingent
  • 25th Bombay Infantry
  • Four coys, HM 86th Regiment

External Links

Historical books online

  • Selections from the letters, despatches and other state papers preserved in the Military Department of the Government of India, 1857-58 edited by George W. Forrest, Director of Records of the Government of India. Volume IV [Central India] 1912 Archive.org
A History of the Indian Mutiny; reviewed and illustrated from original documents by G W Forrest. Volume III, [Central India]. 1912 Archive.org
Page 889 July 1903; page 921 October 1903; page 30 January 1904; page 130 October 1904. Highland Light Infantry Chronicle. Google Books.

Maps

References

  1. ↑ peterharrington.co.uk

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