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{{War|name=Gwalior Campaign |dates=1843 |image=In-gwal1.gif|location=[http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Gwalior_State Gwalior State] |combatant1=British Field Forces |combatant2= Gwalior State forces|result= British control of Gwalior|medal=[http://www.fitzmuseum.cam.ac.uk/coins/collection/watson/page411.html Gwalior Star]|category=[[:Category:Gwalior Campaign 1843|Category:Gwalior Campaign 1843]] |link1= }}
== Summary ==
The British intervened in a succession dispute and defeated the Gwalior army. The Chanderi District was ceded and a British Resident installed to supervise the state government.
== Army of Exercise ==
[[Hugh Gough|Lt Gen Sir Hugh Gough]] commander in chief<br />
Partial list obtained from despatches and casualty returns
==== Right Wing at Agra ====
[[Hugh Gough|Lt Gen Sir Hugh Gough]] commanding
'''Cavalry Division''' under Maj-Gen Sr J. Thackwell KCB KH
*[[Charles Robert Cureton|Brig Cureton's]] Brigade of Cavalry
:*HM [[16th Lancers]] under Lt-Col Macdowell
:*[[Governor General's Bodyguard]] under Capt Dawkins
:*[[1st Bengal Light Cavalry|1st Regiment of Light Cavalry]] under Major Crommelin
:*[[3rd Bengal Cavalry|4th Irregular Cavalty]] under Maj Oldfield
*4th Brigade of Cavalry under Brig Scott CB
:*4th Light Cavalry (Lancers) under Maj Mactier
:*10th Light Cavalry under Lt-Col Pope
:*Capt Grant's troop of [[Bengal Horse Artillery]]
'''Artillery''' under Brigadier Gowan
*Maj Lane's troop of [[Bengal Horse Artillery]]
*Maj Alexander's troop of [[Bengal Horse Artillery]]
*No 10 Light Field battery under Brevet-Maj Sanders
*17th Light Field Battery under Capt Browne
'''2nd Infantry Division''' under Maj-Gen Dennis
*3rd Infantry Brigade''' under Maj-Gen Valiant KH
:*HM [[40th Regiment of Foot]] under Maj Stopford
:*[[102nd Prince of Wales's Own Grenadiers|2nd Regiment of Grenadiers]] under Lt-Col Hamilton
:*16th Regiment of Grenadiers under Lt-Col Maclaren CB
*4th Infantry Brigade under Brig Stacy
:*[[14th Regiment of Bengal Native Infantry|14th Bengal Native Infantry]] under Lt-Col Gairdner
:*[[31st Regiment of Bengal Native Infantry|31st Bengal Native Infantry]] under Lt-Col Weston
:*43rd Light Infantry under Maj Nash
:*16th Regiment of Grenadiers under Lt-Col Maclaren CB
'''3rd Infantry Division''' under Maj-Gen Littler
*Brig Wright's Brigade
:*HM [[39th Regiment of Foot]]
:*[[56th Regiment of Bengal Native Infantry|56th Bengal Native Infantry]]
:*[[12th (Khelat-i-Ghilzie) Pioneers|Khelat-i-Ghilzai Regiment]]
:*7th Coy Sappers and Miners
==== Left Wing at Jhansi ====
Maj-Gen John Grey commanding
'''Cavalry'''
*[[16th Lancers]]
*11th Cavalry under Maj Fitzgerald
*8th Light Cavalry
*[[6th Bengal Cavalry|8th Irregular Cavalry]]
'''Infantry'''
*HM [[3rd Regiment of Foot|3rd Buffs]] under Lt-Col Clunie
*[[39th Regiment of Bengal Native Infantry|39th Regiment of Native Infantry]] under Brig Yates & Maj Earle
*Company of Sappers and Miners under Lt Maxwell
'''2nd Infantry Brigade''' under Act Brig Anderson KH
*HM [[50th Regiment of Foot]] under Maj Pettit
*[[50th Regiment of Bengal Native Infantry|50th Native Infantry]] under Maj White
*[[51st Regiment of Bengal Native Infantry|51st Native Infantry]]
*[[58th Regiment of Bengal Native Infantry|58th Native Infantry]] under Capt Parker
'''Artillery'''
*Two troops of [[Bengal Horse Artillery]]
*3rd Brigade of Horse Artillery under Maj Geddes
*No 16 Light Field battery under Lt Olpherts
*Sipree Contingent under Brig Stubbs
== External links ==
*[http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Gwalior_State Gwalior State] Wikipedia<br>*[http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Gwalior_Campaign Gwalior Campaign] Wikipedia<br />*[http://books.google.co.uk/books?id=dXHomTB9tTAC&pg=PA65&lpg=PA65&dq=Maj-Gen+John+Grey+1843&source=bl&ots=vvdjHwhFpQ&sig=74NbH4fYJ7nFxTkJU6Ik7jRTGCY&hl=en&ei=MpeyTvTUFInG8QPJ66XhBA&sa=X&oi=book_result&ct=result&resnum=7&ved=0CEYQ6AEwBg#v=onepage&q=Maj-Gen%20John%20Grey%201843&f=false Popular Resistance and the 1843 Uprising] Sindhias and the Raj by Amar Farooqui 2011<br />*''The history of British India: a chronology'' by John F. Riddick 2006 [http://books.google.co.uk/books?id=Es6x4u_g19UC&pg=PA47&lpg=PA47&dq=Kolhapur+Campaign+1844&source=bl&ots=KfsZb6m2xu&sig=_ByeH3UHr5_W9HGugbYjzvqiPsE&hl=en&ei=7pq3TrbII9OS8gPo3oCmBQ&sa=X&oi=book_result&ct=result&resnum=6&ved=0CEMQ6AEwBQ#v=onepage&q=Kolhapur%20Campaign%201844&f=false 1843-44 Gwalior War] Google Books<br />*[http://books.google.co.uk/books?id=HvE_Pa_ZlfsC&pg=PA157&dq=Gwalior+Campaign+1843&ei=E6S2SabuB5DUlQSO1Ij9Bg#PPA157,M1 Victorians at War: Gwalior Campaign (1843)] Google Books<br>*[http://www.indohistory.com/the_gwalior_war.html Gwalior War] Google Booksindohistory.com <br>*[http://dsal.uchicago.edu/maps/gazetteer/images/gazetteer_V9_pg392.jpg Central India Map showing Gwalior] University of Chicago ==== Historical books on-line ====*''The Life and Campaigns of Hugh, First Viscount Gough, Field-Marshal Vol I'' by Robert S. Rait 1903 [http://www.archive.org/stream/cu31924088002120#page/n350/mode/1up The Gwalior Campaign]<br />*[http://www.archive.org/stream/historyindianad00barogoog#page/n436/mode/1up Lord Ellenborough's correspondence] archive .org<br />*''Our Soldiers'' by William H. G. Kingston 1898 [http://www.archive.org/stream/Kingston_Our_Soldiers#page/n57/mode/1up Gwalior Campaign]. page 58. archive .org<br />*[http://books.google.com.au/books?id=Q9wRAAAAYAAJ&pg=PA236 Gwalior, 1843-44], from "Memoir of Major-General Sir [[Henry Marion Durand]], K.C.S.I., C.B., R.E." by Lieutenant C.R, Low, (Late) Indian Navy, page 236 ''Colburn's United Service Magazine and Naval and Military Journal, 1871 Part 1'' Google Books*[https://archive.org/stream/recollectionsoft00gordrich#page/24/mode/2up “Campaign in Gwalior”], page 24, ''Recollections of thirty-nine years in the Army : Gwalior and the Battle of Maharajpore, 1843, the Gold Coast of Africa, 1847-48, the Indian Mutiny, 1857-58, the expedition to China, 1860-61, the siege of Paris, 1870-71, etc.'' by Sir Charles Alexander Gordon, Surgeon-General 1898 Archive.org. The author was surgeon in the [[3rd Regiment of Foot]] during the Gwalior Campaign.
[[Category:Minor Campaigns|Gwalior Campaign]][[Category:Gwalior Campaign 1843| Gwalior Campaign]]
