Truckee Campaign

Truckee Campaign
Part of Minor Campaigns
Date:	16 January-19 March 1845
Location:	Truckee fortress, Deyrah, near Jacobabad, Sind
Presidency:	Bombay
Co-ordinates:	28.501098°N 68.322259°E
Result:	Submission of tribes
Combatants
East India Company	Bugti, Baluchi Tribesmen
Commanders
Maj Gen Sir Charles Napier
Strength
Casualties

Alternative spelling: Trukkee, Traki

External links

• Painting: 'The Red Thread of Honour: Heights of Truckee, 1845' by David Cunliffe painted 1846. Collection of the Somerset Military Museum. artuk.org. Story behind painting can be found at page 9 of The Rifles History riflesmuseum.co.uk

Historical books online

• Napier's despatch Google Books
• "Termination of the War with the Mountain Tribes on the North of the Indus", page 277 Allen's Indian Mail 1845 Google Books
• In January 1845 Sir C Napier issued a manifesto embodying a declaration of war against the Jackranees. Doomkees and Bhoogtees, page 181 History of General Sir Charles Napier's Administration of Scinde, and Campaign in the Cutchee Hills by Sir William Francis Patrick Napier 1851 Google Books
  • "Notes by Major Beatson, on his Separate Operations, and March to blockade the Northern Entrance of Trukkee, 1845, written at the time", page 403
• 1845, page 55 Record Book of the Scinde Irregular Horse Volume 1, 1856 Google Books