3rd Burma War
Summary
| 3rd Burma War | |
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| 9 November-28 December 1885 | |
| Chronological list of Wars and Campaigns | |
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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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In the 1880s British concerns were raised by contacts between the Burmese and the French whose colonial expansion in Indo-China had reached the Burmeses 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
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
Historical Books on-line
Frontier and Overseas Expeditions from India Vol V - 3rd Burma War archive.org
