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==Summary ==
==Summary ==
The immediate cause of the punitive expedition was the assassination of the British resident [http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/James_W.W._Birch J.W.W.Birch] Government adviser to Sultan Abdullah Muhammad Shah II the [http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Sultan_of_Perak Sultan of Perak]. An expeditionary force undwr Maj Gen The Hon. Francis Colbourne CB and Brig Gen John Ross was sent which fought a number of engagements subduing the territory which was occupied for a year.
The immediate cause of the punitive expedition was the assassination in [[Malaysia|Malaya]] of the British resident [http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/James_W.W._Birch J.W.W.Birch] Government adviser to Sultan Abdullah Muhammad Shah II the [http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Sultan_of_Perak Sultan of Perak]. An expeditionary force undwr Maj Gen The Hon. Francis Colbourne CB and Brig Gen John Ross was sent which fought a number of engagements subduing the territory which was occupied for a year.


==Perak Expeditionary Force ==
==Perak Expeditionary Force ==
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*[http://en.wikisource.org/wiki/Corresp:_Actions_of_Perak_Expeditionary_Force_post-murder_of_Birch  Correspondence on Actions of the Expeditionary Force] Wikisource<br>
*[http://en.wikisource.org/wiki/Corresp:_Actions_of_Perak_Expeditionary_Force_post-murder_of_Birch  Correspondence on Actions of the Expeditionary Force] Wikisource<br>
*[http://www.sabrizain.org/malaya/perak.htm The Perak War] sabrizain.org
*[http://www.sabrizain.org/malaya/perak.htm The Perak War] sabrizain.org
*[http://www.kaiserscross.com/304501/471964.html The Perak War 1875-1876 and the award of a Victoria Cross to a Goorkha officer: The British colonial advance into Malaya] by Harry Fecitt from [http://www.kaiserscross.com/304501/home.html  Harry’s Sideshows] (kaiserscross.com)
===Historical books online===
===Historical books online===
*[http://www.archive.org/stream/frontieroverseas06indi#page/346/mode/2up  ''Frontier and Overseas Expeditions from India Vol VI -Perak 1875''] archive.org
*[http://www.archive.org/stream/frontieroverseas06indi#page/346/mode/2up  ''Frontier and Overseas Expeditions from India Vol VI -Perak 1875''] archive.org

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Perak War
November 1875-December 1876
Chronological list of Wars and Campaigns
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Location: Pasir Salak, Teluk Intan, Perak, Malaysia
Combatants:
British troops from China
Indian troops from Madras
Perak Malays
Result: Sultan deposed
Medals:
India General Service Medal
Links:
Category: Minor Campaigns


Summary

The immediate cause of the punitive expedition was the assassination in Malaya of the British resident J.W.W.Birch Government adviser to Sultan Abdullah Muhammad Shah II the Sultan of Perak. An expeditionary force undwr Maj Gen The Hon. Francis Colbourne CB and Brig Gen John Ross was sent which fought a number of engagements subduing the territory which was occupied for a year.

Perak Expeditionary Force

Related articles

Captain Channer's Victoria Cross

External links

Historical books online