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{{War|name=3rd Burma War |dates=9 November-28 December 1885 |image=|location=[[Burma]] |combatant1=British India |combatant2=Burma |result=British victory. Annexation of Burma |medal=[http://www.fitzmuseum.cam.ac.uk/dept/coins/collection/watson/page145.html India General Service medal, Burma 1885-87 clasp] |category=[[:Category:3rd Burma War|3rd Burma War]] |link1=}}
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Also includes some information about '''later expeditions'''.
== Summary ==
*[http://www.nationalarchives.gov.uk/a2a/records.aspx?cat=059-iorlmil_8-2_4&cid=1-1-14-1-30#1-1-14-1-30 '''IOR/L/MIL/17/19/30'''] ''Proceedings of the Government of India Military Department: Burma 1885-86''. 460 pages. Calcutta, 1886.
*[http://www.nationalarchives.gov.uk/a2a/records.aspx?cat=059-iorlmil_8-2_4&cid=1-1-14-1-31#1-1-14-1-31 '''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
*[http://www.nationalarchives.gov.uk/a2a/records.aspx?cat=059-iorlmil_8-2_4&cid=1-1-14-1-32#1-1-14-1-32 '''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.:Some volumes are available online, refer below, but most are restricted to viewers in areas such as North America etc. The is however, one volume viewable without restriction.
==Medal rolls==
[http://www.britishmedals.us/kevin/medals/burma8789.html Medal rolls for Burma 1887-1889 ] - Transcribed from WO 100/73 series at [[The National Archives]] from Kevin Asplin’s [http://www.britishmedals.us/index.html British Medals] website
== External Links links ==
*[http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Third_Burmese_War Third Anglo-Burmese War] Wikipedia<br>
*[http://www.pdavis.nl/Burmah.htm Naval Brigade in Upper Burmah by W L Clowes] www.pdavis.nl<br />
*[http://www.deccanherald.com/content/79027/remains-lost-kingdom.html Thibaw's palace in exile] www.deccanherald.com<br>
*[https://web.archive.org/web/20130905003317/http://www.old-print.com/mas_assets/full2/M1321885/M1321885445.jpg Drawings of an elephant battery at Tongo, Burma 1885] with guns loaded on the elephants’ backs. [https://web.archive.org/web/20131116224320/http://www.old-print.com/cgi-bin/item/M1321885445/search/16%252DAntique%252DPrint%252Dof%252D1885%252DBurma%252DElephant%252DBattery%252DTongo%252DIndia%252DAnimals%252D old-print.com] (archived page) Originally from ''The Graphic'' Saturday, October 24, 1885
*Digitised images of [http://museums.bristol.gov.uk/list.php?keyword=2003%2F001%2F001&itemsimgcheck=on the Burma military campaigns of 1891/1892] taken by the official photographer Felice Beato, who escorted the army. British Empire & Commonwealth Collection [http://museums.bristol.gov.uk/details.php?irn=264911 catalogue reference 2003/001/001] Bristol Museums.
*[http://janus.lib.cam.ac.uk/db/node.xsp?id=EAD%2FGBR%2F0115%2FY3029A Burma Campaigns 1889-91]. Details of photographs in the Cambridge University Library. Mentions the assault on Kyaing-Kwintaung Stockade during the Wuntho Sawbwa Campaign of 1891 by the [[11th Regiment of Foot|2nd Devonshire Regiment]]
**[https://www.repository.cam.ac.uk/discover?scope=%2F&query=%22Y3029A%22&submit=&rpp=10 10 online photographs] from this collection , some attributed to "Felix Beato", using the search term "Y3029A" repository.cam.ac.uk*[https://peek-01.livejournal.com/35945.html Britain’s Wars in Burma (1824-1946)] by Ross Dix-Peek. Lists the regiments taking part. [[1st Burma War|1st]], [[2nd Burma War| 2nd]], 3rd Burma War. ==== Historical Books on-line books online ====*[https://archive.org/details/ourburmesewarsre00laur ''Our Burmese wars and relations with Burma : being an abstract of military and political operations, 1824-25-26, and 1852-53, with various local, statistical, and commercial information, and a summary of events from 1826 to 1879, including a sketch of King Theebau's progress''] by Colonel W F B Laurie 1880 Archive.org*[http://cslrepository.nvli.in/handle/123456789/7743 ''History of the Third Burmese War, 1885, 1886 and 1887. History of the war prior to the annexation of the country Period-1''] India. Quarter Master General's Department. Intelligence Branch 1887. Central Secretariat Library, Delhi (Govt. of India). [https://archive.org/details/dli.csl.7743/mode/2up Archive.org mirror version].:[https://catalog.hathitrust.org/Record/012155890 ''History of the Third Burmese War [1885-1891<nowiki>]</nowiki>'']. 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.*[https://books.google.com.au/books?id=dOc2AQAAMAAJ&pg=PR1 ''History of the Third Burmese War, Diary of Events: Period 2 (Suppl.). From 1st April 1886 to 30th September 1886''] Google Books. This seems likely to be one of the four volumes which form IOR/L/MIL/17/19/32, mentioned above, by Calcutta/Simla: Intelligence Branch, QMG's Dept.*[http://www.archive.org/stream/cu31924007613528#page/n125/mode/2up ''Frontier and Overseas Expeditions from India '' Vol V - 3rd Burma War] Archive.org**[https://www.archive.org/stream/cu31924007613528#page/n322/mode/1up "Chapter XXI Operations of 1889-90-91"] page 305. Includes "The Wuntho Expedition, 1891" [https://www.archive.org/stream/cu31924007613528#page/n324/mode/1up page 307]*[https://archive.org/stream/burmaunderbritis01nisb#page/82/mode/2up "The Third Burmese War"] Chapter IV, page 82, ''Burma under British Rule - and Before, Volume I'' by John Nisbet, late Conservator of Forests, Burma 1901 Archive.org.*''The London Gazette''**[httphttps://www.london-gazettethegazette.co.uk/issuesLondon/issue/25599/pagespage/2965 Operations in Upper Burma which resulted in the capture of Mandalay 28 November 1885 and the overthrow of King Theebaw.] Official correspondence in the ''London Gazette'' Tuesday 22 June 1886**[httphttps://www.london-gazettethegazette.co.uk/issuesLondon/issue/25735/pagespage/4755 Official correspondence in the ''London Gazette'' Friday 2 September 1887] Includes lists of those (mainly officers) mentioned as having rendered specially good service**[httphttps://www.london-gazettethegazette.co.uk/issuesLondon/issue/25993/pagespage/6057 "Field Operations, Burma"] ''London Gazette'' November 15, 1889 page 6057. Covers the period 31 March 1888 to 31 March 1889.**[https://www.thegazette.co.uk/London/issue/26087/page/4931 "Field Operations, Chin -Lushai"] Operations of the Burma and Chittagong Columns of the Chin-Lushai Expeditionary Force commencing November 1889 ''The London Gazette'' 12 September 1890 issue: 26087 page: 4931**[https://www.thegazette.co.uk/London/issue/26256/page/677 "Field Operations Burma", in the Wuntho territory, February- April 1891] ''The London Gazette'' 9 February 1892 issue: 26256 page: 677
*[https://archive.org/details/cu31924023217197 ''The Coming of the Great Queen : a Narrative of the Acquisition of Burma''] by Major Edmond Charles Browne, Late Commandant Mounted Infantry Corps, Burma Field Force 1888 Archive.org
*[https://archive.org/stream/pacificationofbu00crosrich#page/n7/mode/2up ''The Pacification of Burma''] 
by Sir Charles Crosthwaite. Chief Commissioner of Burma 1887-1890. 1912 Archive.org.This edition which has illustrations, is missing the [https://archive.org/stream/pacificationbur00crosgoog#page/n12/mode/2up first page of the Preface] which may be viewed in an alternative edition.
*[httphttps://seapdatapapersarchive.library.cornell.eduorg/cgidetails/tmyexperiencesinm00johniala/textpage/text-idx?c=seap;idno=seap063 n7 ''My experiences in Manipur and the Naga Hills''Military ] by the late Major-General Sir James Johnstone 1896 Archive.org. The account concerns the period 1873 to the operations in 1885-1886, at the time of the 3rd Burma War.* ''Record Of The Service Of The 23rd Bombay Light Infantry During The Campaign In Burma, 1890-1892; letters from J. K. WatsonFrom July 1886 To May 1888''] Edited by BCaptain W A M Wilson 1893. [https://archive. Rorg/details/in. Pearnernet. Southeast Asia Program, Deptdli.2015. of Asian Studies, Cornell University, 1967279171 Archive. The author of the letters was Lieutenant J K Watsonorg version], 4th Battalion, [[60th Regiment mirror from Digital Library of Foot|King’s Royal Rifle Corps]]India.
*[http://www.archive.org/stream/NotesOnCavalryEmployedInUpperBurmaFromOctober1886ToOctober1887/2.109Heyland#page/n0/mode/2up "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
*[http://www.archive.org/stream/MandalayIn1885-1888TheLettersOfJamesAlfredColbeck/2.111Colbeck2#page/n0/mode/2up "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. ([https://archive.org/details/MandalayIn1878-1879TheLettersOfJamesAlfredColbeck 1878-1879 Letters] Archive.org)*[http://www.archive.org/stream/riflebrigadechr01owngoog#page/n66/mode/2up "The 4th Battalion in Burma 1888-89"] page 51 ''The Rifle Brigade Chronicle'' for 1895 (Sixth Year) 1896 Archive.org*[http://hdl.handle.net/2027/coo.31924022998615?urlappend=%3Bseq=7 ''The Hampshire Men (37th Regiment) in Upper Burmah in 1889''] by Lieut-Colonel F Cochran, Commanding 1st Battalion The Hampshire Regiment 1890 Hathi Trust Digital Library*[https://hdl.handle.net/1813/57532 ''Military operations in Burma, 1890-1892; letters from J. K. Watson''] Edited by B. R. Pearn. Southeast Asia Program, Dept. of Asian Studies, Cornell University, 1967. The author of the letters was Lieutenant J K Watson, 4th Battalion, [[60th Regiment of Foot|King’s Royal Rifle Corps]]
*[http://www.archive.org/stream/medalsofbritishn00longrich#page/295/mode/1up "Third Burmese War and Annexation of Burmah 1885-87"], page 295, ''Medals of the British Navy and how they were won'' by W.H. Long 1895 Archive.org
*[http://archive.org/stream/otherwayrespectf00forb#page/128/mode/2up "Among the Dacoits"] page 128 ''The other way: respectfully dedicated to all good housewives'' by Ernest Forbes 1899 Archive.org
*''The Life Of General Sir Harry N.D. Prendergast'' by Henry M. Vibart 1914 may be read online on the . [[Online books#Digital Library of India| https://archive.org/details/in.ernet.dli.2015.175578 Archive.org version], mirror from Digital Library of India]] website. Sir Harry led the 1885 expedition.*“A Naval Officer on an Indian Army Staff” by G. A. B. ''The Naval Review'' May 1938 Vol XXVI Issue no 1, pages 75-85 and Issue no. 2, pages 271-282. [https://web.archive.org/web/20170714142901/http://www.naval-review.com/issues/1930s/1938-1.pdf Part 1] (scroll down) and [https://web.archive.org/web/20170714142608/http://www.naval-review.com/issues/1930s/1938-2.pdf Part 2] (scroll down), now archived pages. During the Burma river war of 1885, the author, G. A. B., was appointed naval aide-de-camp to General Prendergast who was in command.*[https://archive.org/details/in.ernet.dli.2015.66619 ''The Annexation Of Upper Burma''] by D P Singhal 1960 Archive.org, Digital Library of India Collection.
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