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{{War|name=3rd Burma War |dates=9 November-28 December 1885 |image=|location=[[Burma]] |combatant1=British India |combatant2=Burma  |result=British victory. Annexation of Burma |medal=[http://www.fitzmuseum.cam.ac.uk/dept/coins/collection/watson/page145.html India General Service medal, Burma 1885-87 clasp] |category=[[:Category:3rd Burma War|3rd Burma War]] |link1=}}
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Also includes some information about '''later expeditions'''.
== Summary ==
== Summary ==
{{War|name=3rd Burma War |dates=9 November-28 December 1885 |image=|combatant1=British India |combatant2=Burma|category=[[:Category:3rd Burma War|3rd Burma War]] |link1=}}
In the 1880s British concerns were raised by contacts between the Burmese and the [[French]] whose colonial expansion in Indo-China had reached the Burmese 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 [http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Harry_North_Dalrymple_Prendergast  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. Increasing numbers of troops were required to counter the resistance campaign which continued into 1889. Unrest continued in the northern tribal areas. See [[Chin Lushai Expedition 1889-90|Chin Lushai Expedition]] 1889, [[Chin Hills Expedition 1892-93|Chin Hills Expedition]] 1892, [[Kachin Hills Expedition 1892-93|Kachin Hills Expedition]] 1892 & [[Kachin Hills Expedition 1895-96|Kachin Hills Expedition]] 1895.
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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.
== Upper Burma Field Force ==
==== Expeditionary Force ====
9,034 fighting men, 2,810 native followers and 67 guns under [http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Harry_North_Dalrymple_Prendergast  Maj-Gen Harry North Dalrymple Prendergast]
<div style="column-count:3;-moz-column-count:3;-webkit-column-count:3">
 
'''Artillery'''<br>
*[[Royal Artillery]]
:*Q-1 Royal Artillery
:*9-1 Cinque Ports Division (Mountain)
:*3-1 Scottish Division
:*4-1 North Irish Division
*[[Hazara Mountain Battery|No 4 Punjab Mountain Battery]]
*[[25th Quetta Mountain Battery|No 1 Bombay Mountain Battery]]<br />
 
'''Sappers and Miners'''<br>
*4th & 5th Coys [[Bengal Sappers and Miners]]
*2nd Coy [[Bombay Sappers and Miners]]
*[[61st Madras Pioneers|1st Madras Pioneers]]
 
'''1st Infantry Brigade'''<br>
Brig-Gen H H Foord commanding
*2nd Btn [[8th Regiment of Foot|King's Liverpool Regiment]]
*[[81st Madras Pioneers|21st Madras Infantry]]
*[[78th Moplah Rifles|25th Madras Infantry]]<br />
 
'''2nd Infantry Brigade'''<br>
[http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/George_Stuart_White Brig-Gen G S White CB VC] commanding
*2nd Btn [[37th Regiment of Foot|Hampshire Regiment]]
*[[72nd Punjab Regiment|12th Madras Infantry]]
*[[83rd (Wallajahbad) Light Infantry|23rd Madras Infantry]]<br />
 
'''3rd Infantry Brigade'''<br>
[http://www.archive.org/stream/dictionaryofindi00buckuoft#page/316/mode/2up/search/Norman Brig-Gen F B Norman CB BSC] commanding
*1st Btn [[23rd Regiment of Foot|Royal Welsh Fusiliers]]
*[[2nd Regiment of Rajput Infantry|2nd Bengal Infantry]]
*[[11th Regiment of Rajput Infantry|11th Bengal Infantry]]<br />
 
'''Mounted Infantry'''<br>
Maj E C Brown, Scots Fusiliers commanding
*31 [[21st Regiment of Foot|Royal Scots Fusiliers]]
*15 Rangoon Volunteers
*52 Police
</div>


== Burma Campaign Force ==
==== Reinforcement Spring 1886 ====
'''Cavalry'''<br>
*[[1st Madras Lancers]]
*[[31st Duke of Connaught's Own Lancers|1st Bombay Lancers]]
*2nd Squadron [[2nd Madras Native Cavalry|2nd Madras Cavalry]]
*[[3rd Cavalry, Hyderabad Contingent]]
*[[7th Bengal Lancers|7th Bengal Cavalry]]<br>
'''Infantry'''<br>
'''Infantry'''<br>
*[[2nd Regiment of Foot|RoyalWest Surrey Regiment]]
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*[[8th Regiment of Foot|Liverpool Regiment]]
*[[13th Regiment of Foot|Somerset Light Infantry]]
*[[13th Regiment of Foot|Somerset Light Infantry]]
*[[23rd Regiment of Foot|Royal Welsh Fusiliers]]
*[[26th Regiment of Punjab Infantry|26th Bengal Infantry]]
*[[37th Regiment of Foot|Hampshire Regiment]]
*[[5th Regiment of Bombay Light Infantry|5th Bombay Infantry]]
*[[51st Regiment of Foot|Yorkshire Light Infantry]]
*[[23rd Bombay Rifles|23rd Bombay Infantry]]
*[[1st Bengal (European) Fusiliers|Royal Munster Fusiliers]]
*[[43rd Gurkha Rifles|43rd Assam Light Infantry]]
*[[3rd Gurkha Rifles|3rd Gurkhas]]
*[[76th Punjab Regiment|16th Madras Infantry]]
*[[125th Napier's Rifles|25th Bombay Infantry]]
</div>
 
==== Reinforcement Sept 1886 ====
<div style="column-count:3;-moz-column-count:3;-webkit-column-count:3">
 
'''Infantry'''<br>
*2nd Btn [[2nd Regiment of Foot|Royal West Surrey Regiment]]
*1st Btn [[51st Regiment of Foot|South Yorkshire Regiment]]
*[[1st Regiment of Brahman Infantry|1st Bengal Infantry]]
*[[1st Regiment of Brahman Infantry|1st Bengal Infantry]]
*[[5th Regiment of Bengal (Light) Infantry|5th Bengal Infantry]]
*[[5th Regiment of Bengal (Light) Infantry|5th Bengal Infantry]]
*[[11th Regiment of Rajput Infantry|11th Bengal Infantry]]
*[[77th Moplah Rifles|17th Madras Infantry]]
*[[3rd Infantry, Hyderabad Contingent]]
*1st Btn [[The Rifle Brigade]]
*2nd Btn [[1st Bengal (European) Fusiliers|Royal Munster Fusiliers]]
*[[127th Baluch Light Infantry|27th Bombay Infantry]]
 
'''Cavalry'''<br>
*[[7th Bengal Lancers|7th Bengal Cavalry]]
*[[1st Madras Lancers]]
*[[3rd Cavalry, Hyderabad Contingent]]
*[[31st Duke of Connaught's Own Lancers|1st Bombay Lancers]]<br />
 
'''Sappers & Miners'''<br>
*Part 2nd Coy [[Bengal Sappers and Miners]]
 
'''Artillery'''<br>
*9-1 (Mountain) Northern Div [[Royal Artillery]]
*1-1 (Mountain) Eastern Div [[Royal Artillery]]
</div>
 
At the end of October 1886 the force totalled 31,653 fighting men
 
==== Other units deployed during the campaign ====
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*2nd Squadron [[2nd Madras Native Cavalry|2nd Madras Cavalry]]
*[[12th (Khelat-i-Ghilzie) Bengal Infantry|12th Bengal Infantry]]
*[[12th (Khelat-i-Ghilzie) Bengal Infantry|12th Bengal Infantry]]
*[[13th (Shekhawati Regiment) Bengal Native Infantry|13th Bengal Infantry]]
*[[13th (Shekhawati Regiment) Bengal Native Infantry|13th Bengal Infantry]]
*[[15th (Ludhiana) Regiment of Sikh Infantry|15th Bengal Infantry]]
*[[15th (Ludhiana) Regiment of Sikh Infantry|15th Bengal Infantry]]
*|16th Bengal Infantry
*[[16th (Lucknow) Regiment of Rajput Infantry|16th Bengal Infantry]]
*|18th Bengal Infantry
*[[18th Musulman Rajput Infantry|18th Bengal Infantry]]
*|26th Bengal Infantry
*[[27th Regiment of Punjab Infantry|27th Bengal Infantry]]
*|27th Bengal Infantry
*[[44th Gurkha Rifles|44th Bengal Infantry]]
*|44th Bengal Infantry
*[[63rd (Palamcottah) Light Infantry|3rd Madras Infantry]]
*|3rd Madras Infantry
*[[73rd Carnatic Infantry|13th Madras Infantry]]
*12th Madras Infantry
*[[75th Carnatic Infantry|15th Madras Infantry]]
*13th Madras Infantry
*[[87th Punjab Regiment|27th Madras Infantry]]
*15th Madras Infantry
*[[81st Madras Pioneers|1st Madras Pioneers]]
*16th Madras Infantry
*[[1st Regiment of Bombay Native Infantry (Grenadiers)|1st Bombay Infantry]]
*17th Madras Infantry
*[[7th Regiment of Bombay Infantry (Pioneers)|7th Bombay Infantry]]
*21st Madras Infantry
*[[27th (1st Baluch Battalion) Bombay Light Infantry|27th Bombay Infantry]]
*23rd Madras Infantry
*[[3rd Gurkha Rifles|3rd Goorkhas]]
*25th Madras Infantry
*[[2nd Infantry, Hyderabad Contingent]]
*27th Madras Infantry
*1st Madras Pioneers
*1st Bombay Infantry
*5th Bombay Infantry
*7th Bombay Infantry
*23rd Bombay Infantry
*25th Bombay Infantry
*27th Bombay Infantry
*3rd Goorkhas
*2nd Infantry Hyderabad Contingent
*3rd Infantry Hyderabad Contingent
*1st, 3rd, 4th & 6th Coys [[Madras Sappers and Miners]]
*1st, 3rd, 4th & 6th Coys [[Madras Sappers and Miners]]
*2nd, 4th & 5th Coys [[Bengal Sappers and Miners]]
</div>
2nd Coy Bombay Sappers<br>
 
'''Artillery'''<br>
==British Library holdings==
*1st Battery 1st Brigade East Division
India Office Records:Publications
*5th Battery 1st Brigade South Division
*[http://www.nationalarchives.gov.uk/a2a/records.aspx?cat=059-iorlmil_8-2_4&cid=1-1-14-1-30#1-1-14-1-30 '''IOR/L/MIL/17/19/30'''] ''Proceedings of the Government of India Military Department: Burma 1885-86''. 460 pages. Calcutta, 1886.
*7th Battery 1st Brigade North Division
*[http://www.nationalarchives.gov.uk/a2a/records.aspx?cat=059-iorlmil_8-2_4&cid=1-1-14-1-31#1-1-14-1-31 '''IOR/L/MIL/17/19/31'''] ''History of the Third Burmese War''. Calcutta/Simla: Intelligence Branch, QMG's Dept, 1887-94. 6 volumes + 3 index volumes. 4 volumes and 2 index volumes are available online, refer below.
*8th Battery 1st Brigade London Division
*[http://www.nationalarchives.gov.uk/a2a/records.aspx?cat=059-iorlmil_8-2_4&cid=1-1-14-1-32#1-1-14-1-32 '''IOR/L/MIL/17/19/32'''] ''Supplement to the Third Burmese War. Diary of events''. Lt Henry Ernest Stanton. Calcutta/Simla: Intelligence Branch, QMG's Dept, 1888-93. 3 volumes + index volume. 4 volumes are available online, refer below, which are probably from this series.
*9th Battery 1st Brigade Cinque Ports Division
 
*No 4 Bombay Mountain Battery
==Medal rolls==
*No 1 Punjab Mountain Battery
[http://www.britishmedals.us/kevin/medals/burma8789.html Medal rolls for Burma 1887-1889 ] - Transcribed from WO 100/73 series at [[The National  Archives]]  from Kevin Asplin’s  [http://www.britishmedals.us/index.html  British Medals] website
 
== External links ==
*[http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Third_Burmese_War  Third Anglo-Burmese War] Wikipedia<br>
*[http://www.pdavis.nl/Burmah.htm Naval Brigade in Upper Burmah by W L Clowes] www.pdavis.nl<br />
*[http://books.google.co.uk/books?id=y8ThjBJrWVUC&pg=PA218&dq=Sikkim+Field+Force&as_brr=3#v=onepage&q=Sikkim%20Field%20Force&f=false Annexation of Burma] War Medals and Their History - Google Books<br>
*[http://books.google.co.uk/books?id=5m_VvR36b6YC&pg=PA10&dq=Burma&as_brr=3&ei=Z8WuSbrIOo6syASf8tSQBQ#PPA10,M1 Map of British Conquest of Burma] Google Books<br>
*[http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Thibaw_Min King Thibaw of Burma] Wikipedia<br>
*[http://www.deccanherald.com/content/79027/remains-lost-kingdom.html Thibaw's palace in exile] www.deccanherald.com<br>
*[https://web.archive.org/web/20130905003317/http://www.old-print.com/mas_assets/full2/M1321885/M1321885445.jpg  Drawings of an elephant battery at Tongo, Burma 1885] with guns loaded on the elephants’ backs. [https://web.archive.org/web/20131116224320/http://www.old-print.com/cgi-bin/item/M1321885445/search/16%252DAntique%252DPrint%252Dof%252D1885%252DBurma%252DElephant%252DBattery%252DTongo%252DIndia%252DAnimals%252D old-print.com] (archived page)  Originally from ''The Graphic'' Saturday, October 24, 1885
*Digitised images of  [https://becc.bristol.gov.uk/records/2003/001/001 the Burma military campaigns of 1891/1892] taken by the official photographer Felice Beato, who escorted the army.  British Empire & Commonwealth Collection  catalogue reference  2003/001/001 Bristol Archives.
*[http://janus.lib.cam.ac.uk/db/node.xsp?id=EAD%2FGBR%2F0115%2FY3029A Burma Campaigns 1889-91]. Details of photographs in the Cambridge University Library.  Mentions the assault on Kyaing-Kwintaung Stockade during the Wuntho Sawbwa Campaign of 1891 by the [[11th Regiment of Foot|2nd Devonshire Regiment]]
**[https://www.repository.cam.ac.uk/discover?scope=%2F&query=%22Y3029A%22&submit=&rpp=10 10 online photographs] from this collection , some attributed to "Felix Beato",  using the search term "Y3029A" repository.cam.ac.uk
*[https://peek-01.livejournal.com/35945.html Britain’s Wars in Burma (1824-1946)] by Ross Dix-Peek. Lists the regiments taking part. [[1st Burma War|1st]], [[2nd Burma War| 2nd]], 3rd Burma War.
 
==== Historical books online ====
*[https://archive.org/details/ourburmesewarsre00laur  ''Our Burmese wars and relations with Burma : being an abstract of military and political operations, 1824-25-26, and 1852-53, with various local, statistical, and commercial information, and a summary of events from 1826 to 1879, including a sketch of King Theebau's progress''] by Colonel W F B Laurie 1880 Archive.org
*[http://cslrepository.nvli.in/handle/123456789/7743 ''History of the Third Burmese War, 1885, 1886 and 1887. History of the war prior to the annexation of the country Period-1''] [by Lt Henry Ernest Stanton]. India. Quarter Master General's Department. Intelligence Branch 1887. Central Secretariat Library, Delhi (Govt. of India). [https://archive.org/details/dli.csl.7743/mode/2up Archive.org mirror version]. [https://books.google.com.au/books?id=Lug2AQAAMAAJ&pg=PP3  Google Books edition].
:[https://books.google.com.au/books?id=NOg2AQAAMAAJ&pg=PR1 ''Index to History of the Third Burmese War. Period I''] Google Books
:[https://books.google.com.au/books?id=Xeg2AQAAMAAJ&pg=PP7 ''History of the Third Burmese War 1885, 1886 and 1887. Period II. History of the War from the Annexation of the Country to the Commencement of the Winter Campaign 1886-87''] [by Lt Henry Ernest Stanton] 1888 Google Books.
:[https://books.google.com.au/books?id=Y-g2AQAAMAAJ&pg=PR1 ''Index to History of the Third Burmese War. Period II''] Google Books.
:[https://books.google.com.au/books?id=pug2AQAAMAAJ&pg=PP5 ''History of the Third Burmese War  1888-89. Period IV. The Winter Campaign of 1888-89 and the subsequent Operations up to December 3rd 1889'']. Compiled in the Intelligence Branch QMG's Dept by Major N Newnham Davis East Kent Regiment. 1893 Google Books
:[https://books.google.com.au/books?id=v-g2AQAAMAAJ&pg=PP5 ''History of the Third Burmese War 1890-91. Period VI The Winter Campaign of 1890-91'']. Compiled in the Intelligence Branch QMG's Dept By Captain J H Parsons The Bengal Cavalry Attaché. 1893 Google Books
:[https://catalog.hathitrust.org/Record/012155890 ''History of the Third Burmese War [1885-1891<nowiki>]</nowiki>''].  The official history of the third Burmese war  compiled in the Intelligence Branch of the Quarter-Master-General's Department in India consisting 4 volumes and 2 index volumes online. Restricted viewing,  available to North American etc viewers. HathiTrust Digital Library. '''Note''', very likely to be the same as the Google Books editions previously mentioned.
*[https://books.google.com.au/books?id=UOc2AQAAMAAJ&pg=PR1 ''History of the Third Burmese War, Diary of Events: Period I (Supplement). From the outbreak of the war to 31st March 1886'']. Google Books. This, and the following seems likely to be  the four volumes which form IOR/L/MIL/17/19/32, mentioned above, by Calcutta/Simla: Intelligence Branch, QMG's Dept.
:[https://books.google.com.au/books?id=b-c2AQAAMAAJ&pg=PP5 '' Index to History of the Third Burmese War Period I (Supplement)''] Google Books.
:[https://books.google.com.au/books?id=dOc2AQAAMAAJ&pg=PR1 ''History of the Third Burmese War, Diary of Events: Period II (Supplement). From 1st April 1886 to 30th September 1886''].  Google Books.
:[https://books.google.com.au/books?id=Ceg2AQAAMAAJ&pg=PR1  ''History of the Third Burmese War, Diary of Events: Period III  (Supplement)''] From 1st October  1886  to  31st March  1888. Google Books. 
*[http://www.archive.org/stream/cu31924007613528#page/n125/mode/2up  ''Frontier and Overseas Expeditions from India'' Vol V - 3rd Burma War] Archive.org
**[https://www.archive.org/stream/cu31924007613528#page/n322/mode/1up  "Chapter XXI Operations of 1889-90-91"] page 305. Includes "The Wuntho Expedition,  1891" [https://www.archive.org/stream/cu31924007613528#page/n324/mode/1up page 307]
*[https://archive.org/stream/burmaunderbritis01nisb#page/82/mode/2up "The Third Burmese War"] Chapter IV, page 82, ''Burma under British Rule - and Before, Volume I'' by John Nisbet, late Conservator of Forests, Burma 1901 Archive.org.
*''The London Gazette''
**[https://www.thegazette.co.uk/London/issue/25599/page/2965 Operations in Upper Burma which resulted in the capture of Mandalay 28 November 1885 and the overthrow of King Theebaw.]  Official correspondence in the ''London Gazette'' Tuesday 22 June 1886
**[https://www.thegazette.co.uk/London/issue/25735/page/4755  Official correspondence in the ''London Gazette''  Friday 2 September 1887]  Includes lists of those (mainly officers) mentioned as having rendered specially  good  service
**[https://www.thegazette.co.uk/London/issue/25993/page/6057 "Field Operations, Burma"]  ''London Gazette'' November 15, 1889 page 6057.  Covers the period 31 March 1888 to 31 March 1889.
**[https://www.thegazette.co.uk/London/issue/26087/page/4931 "Field Operations, Chin -Lushai"]  Operations of the Burma and Chittagong Columns of the Chin-Lushai Expeditionary Force commencing November 1889 ''The London Gazette'' 12 September 1890 issue: 26087 page: 4931
**[https://www.thegazette.co.uk/London/issue/26256/page/677 "Field Operations Burma", in the Wuntho territory, February- April 1891] ''The London Gazette'' 9 February 1892 issue: 26256 page: 677
*[https://archive.org/details/cu31924023217197 ''The Coming of the Great Queen : a Narrative of the Acquisition of Burma''] by Major Edmond Charles Browne, Late Commandant Mounted Infantry Corps, Burma Field Force 1888 Archive.org
*[https://archive.org/stream/pacificationofbu00crosrich#page/n7/mode/2up ''The Pacification of Burma''] 
by Sir Charles Crosthwaite. Chief Commissioner of Burma 1887-1890.  1912 Archive.org.This edition which has illustrations, is missing the [https://archive.org/stream/pacificationbur00crosgoog#page/n12/mode/2up first page of the Preface] which may be viewed in an alternative edition.
*[https://archive.org/details/myexperiencesinm00johniala/page/n7 ''My experiences in Manipur and the Naga Hills''] by the late Major-General Sir James Johnstone 1896 Archive.org. The account concerns the period 1873 to the operations in 1885-1886, at the time of the 3rd Burma War.
* ''Record Of The Service Of The 23rd Bombay Light Infantry During The Campaign In Burma, From July 1886 To May 1888'' by Captain W A M Wilson 1893. [https://archive.org/details/in.ernet.dli.2015.279171 Archive.org version], mirror from Digital Library of India.
*[http://www.archive.org/stream/NotesOnCavalryEmployedInUpperBurmaFromOctober1886ToOctober1887/2.109Heyland#page/n0/mode/2up  "Notes on Cavalry Employed in Upper Burma From October 1886 to October 1887"]. Originally from ''History of the Third Burmese War 1885, 1886 and 1887'' (1889) Reprinted in ''SOAS Bulletin of Burma Research'', Vol 2, No 1, Spring 2004. Archive.org
*[http://www.archive.org/stream/MandalayIn1885-1888TheLettersOfJamesAlfredColbeck/2.111Colbeck2#page/n0/mode/2up  "Mandalay in 1885-1888: The Letters of James Alfred Colbeck"] “The present letters include the years 1885-1888, when Colbeck returned to Upper Burma with British forces and served as both mission priest and as acting chaplain for British forces”. Originally from ''Letters from Mandalay, A Series of Letters For the Most Part Written From the Royal City of Mandalay During the Troublous Years of 1878-79; Together with Letters Written During the Last Burmese Campaign of 1885-88'' (1892). Reprinted in ''SOAS Bulletin of Burma Research'', Vol 2, No1, Spring 2004. Archive.org. ([https://archive.org/details/MandalayIn1878-1879TheLettersOfJamesAlfredColbeck 1878-1879 Letters] Archive.org)
*[http://www.archive.org/stream/riflebrigadechr01owngoog#page/n66/mode/2up "The 4th Battalion in Burma 1888-89"] page 51 ''The Rifle Brigade Chronicle'' for 1895 (Sixth Year) 1896 Archive.org
*[http://hdl.handle.net/2027/coo.31924022998615?urlappend=%3Bseq=7 ''The Hampshire Men (37th Regiment) in Upper Burmah in 1889''] by Lieut-Colonel F Cochran, Commanding 1st Battalion The Hampshire Regiment 1890 Hathi Trust Digital Library
*[https://hdl.handle.net/1813/57532  ''Military operations in Burma, 1890-1892; letters from J. K. Watson''] Edited by B. R. Pearn. Southeast Asia Program, Dept. of Asian Studies, Cornell University, 1967. The author of the letters was Lieutenant J K Watson, 4th Battalion, [[60th Regiment of Foot|King’s Royal Rifle Corps]]
*[http://www.archive.org/stream/medalsofbritishn00longrich#page/295/mode/1up "Third Burmese War and Annexation of Burmah 1885-87"], page 295, ''Medals of the British Navy and how they were won'' by W.H. Long 1895 Archive.org
*[http://archive.org/stream/otherwayrespectf00forb#page/128/mode/2up "Among the Dacoits"] page 128 ''The other way: respectfully dedicated to all good housewives'' by Ernest Forbes 1899  Archive.org
* ''The Life Of General Sir Harry N.D. Prendergast'' by  Henry M. Vibart 1914.  [https://archive.org/details/in.ernet.dli.2015.175578 Archive.org version], mirror from Digital Library of India.  Sir Harry led the 1885 expedition.
*“A Naval Officer on an Indian Army Staff”  by G. A. B. ''The Naval Review''  May 1938 Vol XXVI Issue no 1, pages 75-85 and Issue no. 2, pages 271-282.  [https://web.archive.org/web/20170714142901/http://www.naval-review.com/issues/1930s/1938-1.pdf Part 1] (scroll down) and [https://web.archive.org/web/20170714142608/http://www.naval-review.com/issues/1930s/1938-2.pdf  Part 2] (scroll down), now archived pages.  During the Burma river war of 1885, the author, G. A. B.,  was appointed naval aide-de-camp to General Prendergast who was in command.
*[https://archive.org/details/in.ernet.dli.2015.66619 ''The Annexation Of Upper Burma''] by D P Singhal 1960 Archive.org, Digital Library of India Collection.
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== External Links ==
[http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Third_Burmese_War  Third Anglo-Burmese War] Wikipedia


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Latest revision as of 07:04, 2 July 2021

3rd Burma War
9 November-28 December 1885
Chronological list of Wars and Campaigns
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Location: Burma
Combatants:
British India Burma
Result: British victory. Annexation of Burma
Medals: India General Service medal, Burma 1885-87 clasp
Links:
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Also includes some information about later expeditions.

Summary

In the 1880s British concerns were raised by contacts between the Burmese and the French whose colonial expansion in Indo-China had reached the Burmese 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. Increasing numbers of troops were required to counter the resistance campaign which continued into 1889. Unrest continued in the northern tribal areas. See Chin Lushai Expedition 1889, Chin Hills Expedition 1892, Kachin Hills Expedition 1892 & Kachin Hills Expedition 1895.

Upper Burma Field Force

Expeditionary Force

9,034 fighting men, 2,810 native followers and 67 guns under Maj-Gen Harry North Dalrymple Prendergast

Artillery

  • Q-1 Royal Artillery
  • 9-1 Cinque Ports Division (Mountain)
  • 3-1 Scottish Division
  • 4-1 North Irish Division

Sappers and Miners

1st Infantry Brigade
Brig-Gen H H Foord commanding

2nd Infantry Brigade
Brig-Gen G S White CB VC commanding

3rd Infantry Brigade
Brig-Gen F B Norman CB BSC commanding

Mounted Infantry
Maj E C Brown, Scots Fusiliers commanding

Reinforcement Spring 1886

Infantry

Reinforcement Sept 1886

Infantry

Cavalry

Sappers & Miners

Artillery

At the end of October 1886 the force totalled 31,653 fighting men

Other units deployed during the campaign

British Library holdings

India Office Records:Publications

  • IOR/L/MIL/17/19/30 Proceedings of the Government of India Military Department: Burma 1885-86. 460 pages. Calcutta, 1886.
  • IOR/L/MIL/17/19/31 History of the Third Burmese War. Calcutta/Simla: Intelligence Branch, QMG's Dept, 1887-94. 6 volumes + 3 index volumes. 4 volumes and 2 index volumes are available online, refer below.
  • IOR/L/MIL/17/19/32 Supplement to the Third Burmese War. Diary of events. Lt Henry Ernest Stanton. Calcutta/Simla: Intelligence Branch, QMG's Dept, 1888-93. 3 volumes + index volume. 4 volumes are available online, refer below, which are probably from this series.

Medal rolls

Medal rolls for Burma 1887-1889 - Transcribed from WO 100/73 series at The National Archives from Kevin Asplin’s British Medals website

External links

Historical books online

Index to History of the Third Burmese War. Period I Google Books
History of the Third Burmese War 1885, 1886 and 1887. Period II. History of the War from the Annexation of the Country to the Commencement of the Winter Campaign 1886-87 [by Lt Henry Ernest Stanton] 1888 Google Books.
Index to History of the Third Burmese War. Period II Google Books.
History of the Third Burmese War 1888-89. Period IV. The Winter Campaign of 1888-89 and the subsequent Operations up to December 3rd 1889. Compiled in the Intelligence Branch QMG's Dept by Major N Newnham Davis East Kent Regiment. 1893 Google Books
History of the Third Burmese War 1890-91. Period VI The Winter Campaign of 1890-91. Compiled in the Intelligence Branch QMG's Dept By Captain J H Parsons The Bengal Cavalry Attaché. 1893 Google Books
History of the Third Burmese War [1885-1891]. The official history of the third Burmese war compiled in the Intelligence Branch of the Quarter-Master-General's Department in India consisting 4 volumes and 2 index volumes online. Restricted viewing, available to North American etc viewers. HathiTrust Digital Library. Note, very likely to be the same as the Google Books editions previously mentioned.
Index to History of the Third Burmese War Period I (Supplement) Google Books.
History of the Third Burmese War, Diary of Events: Period II (Supplement). From 1st April 1886 to 30th September 1886. Google Books.
History of the Third Burmese War, Diary of Events: Period III (Supplement) From 1st October 1886 to 31st March 1888. Google Books.