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| {{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://www.britishmedals.info/india_general_service_medal_1854.html India General Service Medal 1854]<br>Clasp: Looshai
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| == Summary ==
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| 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:
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| # Free Government access to tribal villages
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| # Captured guns to be returned
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| # 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).
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| == Lushai Field Force ==
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| '''Cachar (Left) Column'''<br>
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| ''General G Bourchier CB commanding''
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| *Half [[Peshawar Mountain Battery]] (Capt Blackwood RA)
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| *No 1 Coy [[Bengal Sappers and Miners|Sappers & Miners]] (Lt Harvey RE)
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| *500 men [[22nd Regiment of Punjab Infantry|22nd Punjaub Native Infantry]] (Colonel Stafford)
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| *500 men [[42nd Gurkha Rifles|42nd Assam Light Infantry]] (Col Rattray CB)
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| *500 men [[44th Gurkha Rifles|44th Assam Light Infantry]] (Col Hicks)
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| *100 Police (Mr Daly)
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| *Support
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| :*1,440 coolies (Lt-Col Davidson)
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| :*800 coolies for sepoys baggage (Maj Moore)
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| :*121 elephants
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| :*Senior Staff Officer Col Roberts
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| :*Brigade Major Capt Thomas
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| :*Aide-de-Camp Capt Butter
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| :* Inspector General of Hospitals Dr Buckle
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| :*Political Officer Mr Edgar
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| :*Topographical Survey Capt Badgley
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| :*Telegragh Mr Pitman
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| '''Chittagong (Right) Column'''<br>
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| ''Brig-Gen Charles A Brownlow CB commanding''
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| *Half [[Peshawar Mountain Battery]]
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| *No 3 Coy [[Bengal Sappers and Miners|Sappers & Miners]]
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| *500 men [[27th Regiment of Punjab Infantry|27th Punjaub Native Infantry]]
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| *500 men [[2nd Gurkha Rifles|2nd Gurkhas]]
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| *500 men [[4th Gurkha Rifles|4th Gurkhas]]
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| == External Links ==
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| [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>
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| [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>
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| [http://www.archive.org/stream/frontieroverseas04indi#page/244/mode/2up Lushai Expedition 1871-72] archive .org
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| [[Category:Minor Campaigns]] | | [[Category:Minor Campaigns]] |
| [[Category:Minor Campaigns|Lushai Expedition 1871-72]]
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