3rd Burma War
| 3rd Burma War | |
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| 9 November-28 December 1885 | |
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| Location: Burma | |
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| British India | Burma |
| Result: British victory. Annexation of Burma | |
| Medals: India General Service medal, Burma 1885-87 clasp | |
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| Category: 3rd Burma War | |
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Summary
In the 1880s British concerns were raised by contacts between the Burmese and the French whose colonial expansion in Indo-China had reached the Burmese border. When a British company was fined by the Burmese for contraventions of its teak extraction contract, the British demanded arbitration and, when that was refused, issued an ultimatum which would have reduced Burma to a vassal state. When this was not accepted on 9 November 1885 an invasion force under Maj-Gen Harry North Dalrymple Prendergast was sent up the Irrawaddy. By 26 November the envoys from King Thibaw offered to surrender. Thibaw was taken into exile in India and the British annexed the remainder of Burma on 1 January 1886. There was sporadic insurgency into 1887.
Burma Campaign Force
9,034 fighting men, 2,810 native followers and 67 guns under Maj-Gen Harry North Dalrymple Prendergast
Cavalry
- 1st Madras Lancers
- 1st Bombay Lancers
- 2nd Squadron 2nd Madras Cavalry
- 3rd Cavalry, Hyderabad Contingent
- 7th Bengal Cavalry
Infantry
- Royal West Surrey Regiment
- Liverpool Regiment
- Somerset Light Infantry
- Royal Welsh Fusiliers
- Hampshire Regiment
- Yorkshire Light Infantry
- Royal Munster Fusiliers
- 1st Bengal Infantry
- 5th Bengal Infantry
- 11th Bengal Infantry
- 12th Bengal Infantry
- 13th Bengal Infantry
- 15th Bengal Infantry
- 16th Bengal Infantry
- 18th Bengal Infantry
- 26th Bengal Infantry
- 27th Bengal Infantry
- 44th Bengal Infantry
- 3rd Madras Infantry
- 12th Madras Infantry
- 13th Madras Infantry
- 15th Madras Infantry
- 16th Madras Infantry
- 17th Madras Infantry
- 21st Madras Infantry
- 23rd Madras Infantry
- 25th Madras Infantry
- 27th Madras Infantry
- 1st Madras Pioneers
- 1st Bombay Infantry
- 5th Bombay Infantry
- 7th Bombay Infantry
- 23rd Bombay Infantry
- 25th Bombay Infantry
- 27th Bombay Infantry
- 3rd Goorkhas
- 2nd Infantry, Hyderabad Contingent
- 3rd Infantry, Hyderabad Contingent
- 1st, 3rd, 4th & 6th Coys Madras Sappers and Miners
- 2nd, 4th & 5th Coys Bengal Sappers and Miners
- 2nd Coy Bombay Sappers and Miners
Artillery
- 1st Battery 1st Brigade East Division
- 5th Battery 1st Brigade South Division
- 7th Battery 1st Brigade North Division
- 8th Battery 1st Brigade London Division
- 9th Battery 1st Brigade Cinque Ports Division
- No 4 Bombay Mountain Battery
- No 1 Punjab Mountain Battery
External Links
Third Anglo-Burmese War Wikipedia
Annexation of Burma War Medals and Their History - Google Books
Map of British Conquest of Burma Google Books
King Thibaw of Burma Wikipedia
Historical Books on-line
- Frontier and Overseas Expeditions from India Vol V - 3rd Burma War archive.org
- "Notes on Cavalry Employed in Upper Burma From October 1886 to October 1887". Originally from History of the Third Burmese War 1885, 1886 and 1887 (1889) Reprinted in SOAS Bulletin of Burma Research, Vol 2, No 1, Spring 2004. Archive.org
- "Mandalay in 1885-1888: The Letters of James Alfred Colbeck" “The present letters include the years 1885-1888, when Colbeck returned to Upper Burma with British forces and served as both mission priest and as acting chaplain for British forces”. Originally from Letters from Mandalay, A Series of Letters For the Most Part Written From the Royal City of Mandalay During the Troublous Years of 1878-79; Together with Letters Written During the Last Burmese Campaign of 1885-88 (1892). Reprinted in SOAS Bulletin of Burma Research, Vol 2, No1, Spring 2004. Archive.org