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| An operation in March and April 1891 following the murder of the Political Agent at Manipur.
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| The troops involved also included volunteers of the [[Calcutta and Presidency Battalion| Calcutta Rifle Corps]] and the [[Surma Valley Light Horse]]
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| ==Records==
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| *British Library catalogue entry [http://hviewer.bl.uk/IamsHViewer/Default.aspx?mdark=ark:/81055/vdc_100000000028.0x0000a3 Collection 352 Manipur Operations 1891 (1891-1893)]. In addition, there are Private Papers Manuscript catalogue references, Mss Eur
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| *National Archives, Kew catalogue entries
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| **[http://discovery.nationalarchives.gov.uk/details/r/C6571112 PRO 30/40/12/3 Major General Sir John Charles Ardagh: Papers: Miscellaneous papers, including The Grimwoods and the Manipur disaste[r<nowiki>]</nowiki> 1891] . Sir John Ardagh was in 1891 Private Secretary to the Marquess of Lansdowne, Viceroy of India.
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| **[http://discovery.nationalarchives.gov.uk/details/r/C4414823 WO 106/145 The Manipur Expedition] War Office Correspondence and Papers
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| ==External links==
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| *[http://marksimner.me.uk/the-manipur-expedition-of-1891/ "The Manipur Expedition Of 1891"] by Mark Simner 11 August 2015.
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| ===Historical books online===
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| *[https://www.thegazette.co.uk/London/issue/26165/page/2805 Award of the Victoria Cross to Lieutenant Charles James William Grant] ''The London Gazette'' 26 May 1891 issue: 26165, page: 2805.
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| *[https://www.thegazette.co.uk/London/issue/26192/page/4369 "Field Operations- Manipur [March- April 1891<nowiki>]</nowiki>"] ''The London Gazette'' 14 August 1891 issue: 26192, page: 4369.
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| *[http://archive.org/stream/mythreeyearsinm01grimgoog#page/n12/mode/2up ''My Three Years in Manipur and Escape from the Recent Mutiny''] by Ethel St. Clair Grimwood 1891 Archive.org. The author was the wife of the murdered Political Agent at Manipur
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| **[http://archive.org/stream/mythreeyearsinm01grimgoog#page/n316/mode/2up Major Grant's Narrative] page 283
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