Category:Lushai Expedition 1871-72

Summary

Raids by Lushai tribesmen became more frequent and serious in early 1871. A punitive expedition was therefore mounted which restore peace for nearly twenty years. The chiefs submitted and agreed to the following terms:

1. Free Government access to tribal villages
2. Captured guns to be returned
3. Payment of a fine of two elephant tusks, one set of war gongs, one necklace, ten goats, ten pigs, fifty fowls abd twenty maunds of rice.

Lushai Field Force

Cachar (Left) Column
General G Bourchier CB commanding

• Half Peshawar Mountain Battery (Capt Blackwood RA)
• No 1 Coy Sappers & Miners (Lt Harvey RE)
• 500 men 22nd Punjaub Native Infantry (Colonel Stafford)
• 500 men 42nd Assam Light Infantry (Col Rattray CB)
• 500 men 44th Assam Light Infantry (Col Hicks)
• 100 Police (Mr Daly)
• Support

• 1,440 coolies (Lt-Col Davidson)
• 800 coolies for sepoys baggage (Maj Moore)
• 121 elephants
• Senior Staff Officer Col Roberts
• Brigade Major Capt Thomas
• Aide-de-Camp Capt Butter
• Inspector General of Hospitals Dr Buckle
• Political Officer Mr Edgar
• Topographical Survey Capt Badgley
• Telegragh Mr Pitman

Chittagong (Right) Column
Brig-Gen Charles A Brownlow CB commanding

• Half Peshawar Mountain Battery
• No 3 Coy Sappers & Miners
• 500 men 27th Punjaub Native Infantry
• 500 men 2nd Gurkhas
• 500 men 4th Gurkhas

External Links

Roberts' Lushai Campaign Google Books
Lushai Expedition Google Books
Lushai Expedition 1871-72 archive .org