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| | '''For details see main article [[Affairs at Kurnool & Zorapoor]]''' |
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| [[Category:Minor Campaigns|Kurnool Campaign 1839]] | | [[Category:Minor Campaigns|Kurnool Campaign 1839]] |
| == Cause of the Campaign ==
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| A fanatical spirit was abroad among the Muslim chiefs and the people of India which appears to have originated in Scinde, whence emissaries were sent to induce the chiefs to engage in a holy war against the British raj. Among the chiefs implicated was the Nawab of [[Kurnool]] - a potentate of some power and not a little wealth. By treaty he was precluded from storing and collecting war ''materiel'', but nevertheless he had amassed a huge quantity of guns, muskets, shot, shell, bullets, swords, matchlocks, English double-barrelled guns and pistols, salt petre, sulphur, copper, lead, reams of cartridge paper, and about 600,000 lbs. of gunpowder. These warlike stores were cunningly concealed, some within the zenana (women's quarters) at [[Kurnool]], and hundreds of cannon were ranged in the courtyards hidden by grass which had been allowed to grow over them. The Nawab was called upon for an explanation and refused to offer one. The Government therefore moved up a force towards [[Kurnool]].
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| == Field Force ==
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| ''6,000 troops under the command of Colonel James''<br>
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| 34th Madras Light Infantry<br>F Troop Native Horse Artillery<br>Two Squadrons [[13th Light Dragoons]]<br>Sappers & Miners<br>HM 39th Foot<br>One Company Foot Artillery<br>39th Native Infantry<br>7th Native Cavalry<br>One Company European Artillery<br>3rd Native Infantry<br>51st Native Infantry<br>
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| == External Links ==
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| [http://books.google.co.uk/books?id=9o-wraQ1TT0C&pg=PA59&dq=Kurnool+1839&lr=&as_brr=3&ei=Or6ySfG8B4mUMpy69PEL#PPA59,M1 Google Books - Kurnool Commission of Enquiry]<br>
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| [http://www.auckram.gq.nu/auckram_ancestry.htm Auckram Ancestry]<br>[http://www.mapsofindia.org/maps-pics/kurnool2.jpg Map of Kurnool District]<br>[http://books.google.co.uk/books?id=mDUQAAAAYAAJ&printsec=frontcover&lr=#PPA545,M1 Kurnool - Gazetteer 1857]
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For details see main article Affairs at Kurnool & Zorapoor