3rd Burma War

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3rd Burma War
9 November-28 December 1885
Chronological list of Wars and Campaigns
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Location: Burma
Combatants:
British India Burma
Result: British victory. Annexation of Burma
Medals: India General Service medal, Burma 1885-87 clasp
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3rd Burma War 1885
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Also includes some information about later expeditions.

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. Increasing numbers of troops were required to counter the resistance campaign which continued into 1889. Unrest continued in the northern tribal areas. See Chin Lushai Expedition 1889, Chin Hills Expedition 1892, Kachin Hills Expedition 1892 & Kachin Hills Expedition 1895.

Upper Burma Field Force

Expeditionary Force

9,034 fighting men, 2,810 native followers and 67 guns under Maj-Gen Harry North Dalrymple Prendergast

Artillery

  • Q-1 Royal Artillery
  • 9-1 Cinque Ports Division (Mountain)
  • 3-1 Scottish Division
  • 4-1 North Irish Division

Sappers and Miners

1st Infantry Brigade
Brig-Gen H H Foord commanding

2nd Infantry Brigade
Brig-Gen G S White CB VC commanding

3rd Infantry Brigade
Brig-Gen F B Norman CB BSC commanding

Mounted Infantry
Maj E C Brown, Scots Fusiliers commanding

Reinforcement Spring 1886

Infantry

Reinforcement Sept 1886

Infantry

Cavalry

Sappers & Miners

Artillery

At the end of October 1886 the force totalled 31,653 fighting men

Other units deployed during the campaign

British Library holdings

India Office Records:Publications

  • IOR/L/MIL/17/19/30 Proceedings of the Government of India Military Department: Burma 1885-86. 460 pages. Calcutta, 1886.
  • IOR/L/MIL/17/19/31 History of the Third Burmese War. Calcutta/Simla: Intelligence Branch, QMG's Dept, 1887-94. 6 volumes + 3 index volumes. 4 volumes and 2 index volumes are available online, refer below.
  • IOR/L/MIL/17/19/32 Supplement to the Third Burmese War. Diary of events. Lt Henry Ernest Stanton. Calcutta/Simla: Intelligence Branch, QMG's Dept, 1888-93. 3 volumes + index volume. 4 volumes are available online, refer below, which are probably from this series.

Medal rolls

Medal rolls for Burma 1887-1889 - Transcribed from WO 100/73 series at The National Archives from Kevin Asplin’s British Medals website

External links

Historical books online

Index to History of the Third Burmese War. Period I Google Books
History of the Third Burmese War 1885, 1886 and 1887. Period II. History of the War from the Annexation of the Country to the Commencement of the Winter Campaign 1886-87 [by Lt Henry Ernest Stanton] 1888 Google Books.
Index to History of the Third Burmese War. Period II Google Books.
History of the Third Burmese War 1888-89. Period IV. The Winter Campaign of 1888-89 and the subsequent Operations up to December 3rd 1889. Compiled in the Intelligence Branch QMG's Dept by Major N Newnham Davis East Kent Regiment. 1893 Google Books
History of the Third Burmese War 1890-91. Period VI The Winter Campaign of 1890-91. Compiled in the Intelligence Branch QMG's Dept By Captain J H Parsons The Bengal Cavalry Attaché. 1893 Google Books
History of the Third Burmese War [1885-1891]. The official history of the third Burmese war compiled in the Intelligence Branch of the Quarter-Master-General's Department in India consisting 4 volumes and 2 index volumes online. Restricted viewing, available to North American etc viewers. HathiTrust Digital Library. Note, very likely to be the same as the Google Books editions previously mentioned.
Index to History of the Third Burmese War Period I (Supplement) Google Books.
History of the Third Burmese War, Diary of Events: Period II (Supplement). From 1st April 1886 to 30th September 1886. Google Books.
History of the Third Burmese War, Diary of Events: Period III (Supplement) From 1st October 1886 to 31st March 1888. Google Books.

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