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[[Category: | {{War|name=Lushai Expedition |dates=1871-72 |image=|location=[http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Lushai_hills Lushai Hills], [http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Mizoram#Origin Mizoram]|combatant1=British army |combatant2=Lushai tribes|result= Submission of tribes|medal=[http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/India_General_Service_Medal_(1854) India General Service Medal 1854]<br>Clasp: Looshai | ||
|category=<br>[[:Category:Lushai Expedition 1871-72|Lushai Expedition 1871-72]] |link1=}} | |||
== Summary == | |||
Raids by Lushai tribesmen became more frequent and serious in early 1871. A punitive expedition was therefore mounted which restored peace for nearly twenty years. The chiefs submitted and agreed to the following terms: | |||
# Free Government access to tribal villages | |||
# Captured guns to be returned | |||
# Payment of a fine of two elephant tusks, one set of war gongs, one necklace, ten goats, ten pigs, fifty fowls and twenty maunds of rice (1 maund = approx 80 lbs). | |||
== Lushai Field Force == | |||
'''Cachar (Left) Column'''<br> | |||
''[http://www.archive.org/stream/dictionaryofindi00buckuoft#page/49/mode/1up/search/Bourchier General G Bourchier CB] commanding'' | |||
*Half [[Peshawar Mountain Battery]] (Capt Blackwood RA) | |||
*No 1 Coy [[Bengal Sappers and Miners|Sappers & Miners]] (Lt Harvey RE) | |||
*500 men [[22nd Regiment of Punjab Infantry|22nd Punjaub Native Infantry]] (Colonel Stafford) | |||
*500 men [[42nd Gurkha Rifles|42nd Assam Light Infantry]] (Col Rattray CB) | |||
*500 men [[44th Gurkha Rifles|44th Assam Light Infantry]] (Col Hicks) | |||
*100 Police (Mr Daly) | |||
*Support | |||
:*1,440 coolies (Lt-Col Davidson) | |||
:*800 coolies for sepoys baggage (Maj Moore) | |||
:*121 elephants | |||
:*Senior Staff Officer [[Frederick Roberts|Col Frederick Roberts]] | |||
:*Brigade Major Capt Thomas | |||
:*Aide-de-Camp Capt Butter | |||
:* Inspector General of Hospitals Dr Buckle | |||
:*Political Officer Mr Edgar | |||
:*Topographical Survey Capt Badgley | |||
:*Telegragh Mr Pitman | |||
'''Chittagong (Right) Column'''<br> | |||
''[[Charles Brownlow|Brig-Gen Charles H Brownlow CB]] commanding'' | |||
*Half [[Peshawar Mountain Battery]] | |||
*No 3 Coy [[Bengal Sappers and Miners|Sappers & Miners]] | |||
*500 men [[27th Regiment of Punjab Infantry|27th Punjaub Native Infantry]] | |||
*500 men [[2nd Gurkha Rifles|2nd Gurkhas]] | |||
*500 men [[4th Gurkha Rifles|4th Gurkhas]] | |||
== Biographies == | |||
Entries in the Dictionary of Indian Biography 1906<br> | |||
[http://www.archive.org/stream/dictionaryofindi00buckuoft#page/49/mode/1up George Bourchier (1821- 98)]<br> | |||
[http://www.archive.org/stream/dictionaryofindi00buckuoft#page/57/mode/1up Charles Brownlow (1831-1916)]<br> | |||
[http://www.archive.org/stream/dictionaryofindi00buckuoft#page/360/mode/1up Frederick Roberts (1832- 1914)]<br> | |||
== External links == | |||
[http://books.google.co.uk/books?id=0LMaMhrZ72AC&pg=PA109&dq=Looshai&as_brr=3&ei=NNf0SK_QMIm6zATdh6mKCA&sig=ACfU3U2rDBX9CsCoH3we7f7J6TbPdZWZkQ#PPA109,M1 Roberts' Lushai Campaign] Google Books<br> | |||
[http://books.google.co.uk/books?id=GI-1rMckfpEC&pg=PA9&dq=Lushai+1871&as_brr=3&ei=vcL0SMTUK6W0zASZq-CQDA&sig=ACfU3U0KTpZU_EzMVVudPZwz0sqqgyHPEQ Lushai Expedition] Google Books<br> | |||
[http://www.archive.org/stream/frontieroverseas04indi#page/244/mode/2up Lushai Expedition 1871-72] archive .org | |||
====Historical books online ==== | |||
*[https://archive.org/details/flyonwheelorhowi00lewiiala/page/254/mode/2up "The Lushai Expedition 1871-72"] page 255 ''A fly on the wheel; or, How I helped to govern India'' by Lieut.-Col. Thomas H Lewin 1912, first published 1885. Archive.org. At the time, he was Deputy Commissioner and Political Agent of the Hill Tracts of Chittagong. | |||
*''Forty-one Years in India from Subaltern to Commander-in-Chief'' by Field Marshal Lord Roberts od Kandahar 1900 [http://www.archive.org/stream/fortyoneyearsin00robe#page/310/mode/1up Lushai Expedition] archive.org | |||
[[Category:Minor Campaigns]] | |||
[[Category:Lushai Expedition 1871-72| Lushai Expedition]] | |||
Latest revision as of 02:16, 18 January 2021
| Lushai Expedition | |
|---|---|
| 1871-72 | |
| Chronological list of Wars and Campaigns | |
| [[Image:|250px| ]] | |
| Location: Lushai Hills, Mizoram | |
| Combatants: | |
| British army | Lushai tribes |
| Result: Submission of tribes | |
| Medals: India General Service Medal 1854 Clasp: Looshai | |
| Links: | |
| Category: Lushai Expedition 1871-72 | |
Summary
Raids by Lushai tribesmen became more frequent and serious in early 1871. A punitive expedition was therefore mounted which restored peace for nearly twenty years. The chiefs submitted and agreed to the following terms:
- Free Government access to tribal villages
- Captured guns to be returned
- Payment of a fine of two elephant tusks, one set of war gongs, one necklace, ten goats, ten pigs, fifty fowls and twenty maunds of rice (1 maund = approx 80 lbs).
Lushai Field Force
Cachar (Left) Column
General G Bourchier CB commanding
- Half Peshawar Mountain Battery (Capt Blackwood RA)
- No 1 Coy Sappers & Miners (Lt Harvey RE)
- 500 men 22nd Punjaub Native Infantry (Colonel Stafford)
- 500 men 42nd Assam Light Infantry (Col Rattray CB)
- 500 men 44th Assam Light Infantry (Col Hicks)
- 100 Police (Mr Daly)
- Support
- 1,440 coolies (Lt-Col Davidson)
- 800 coolies for sepoys baggage (Maj Moore)
- 121 elephants
- Senior Staff Officer Col Frederick Roberts
- Brigade Major Capt Thomas
- Aide-de-Camp Capt Butter
- Inspector General of Hospitals Dr Buckle
- Political Officer Mr Edgar
- Topographical Survey Capt Badgley
- Telegragh Mr Pitman
Chittagong (Right) Column
Brig-Gen Charles H Brownlow CB commanding
- Half Peshawar Mountain Battery
- No 3 Coy Sappers & Miners
- 500 men 27th Punjaub Native Infantry
- 500 men 2nd Gurkhas
- 500 men 4th Gurkhas
Biographies
Entries in the Dictionary of Indian Biography 1906
George Bourchier (1821- 98)
Charles Brownlow (1831-1916)
Frederick Roberts (1832- 1914)
External links
Roberts' Lushai Campaign Google Books
Lushai Expedition Google Books
Lushai Expedition 1871-72 archive .org
Historical books online
- "The Lushai Expedition 1871-72" page 255 A fly on the wheel; or, How I helped to govern India by Lieut.-Col. Thomas H Lewin 1912, first published 1885. Archive.org. At the time, he was Deputy Commissioner and Political Agent of the Hill Tracts of Chittagong.
- Forty-one Years in India from Subaltern to Commander-in-Chief by Field Marshal Lord Roberts od Kandahar 1900 Lushai Expedition archive.org