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# Captured guns to be returned
 
# Captured guns to be returned
 
# Payment of a fine of two elephant tusks, one set of war gongs, one necklace, ten goats, ten pigs, fifty fowls and twenty maunds  of rice (1 maund = approx 80 lbs).
 
# Payment of a fine of two elephant tusks, one set of war gongs, one necklace, ten goats, ten pigs, fifty fowls and twenty maunds  of rice (1 maund = approx 80 lbs).
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== Lushai Field Force ==
 
== Lushai Field Force ==
 
'''Cachar (Left) Column'''<br>
 
'''Cachar (Left) Column'''<br>
''General G Bourchier CB commanding''
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''[http://www.archive.org/stream/dictionaryofindi00buckuoft#page/49/mode/1up/search/Bourchier General G Bourchier CB] commanding''
 
*Half [[Peshawar Mountain Battery]] (Capt Blackwood RA)
 
*Half [[Peshawar Mountain Battery]] (Capt Blackwood RA)
 
*No 1 Coy [[Bengal Sappers and Miners|Sappers & Miners]] (Lt Harvey RE)
 
*No 1 Coy [[Bengal Sappers and Miners|Sappers & Miners]] (Lt Harvey RE)
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:*800 coolies for sepoys baggage (Maj Moore)
 
:*800 coolies for sepoys baggage (Maj Moore)
 
:*121 elephants
 
:*121 elephants
:*Senior Staff Officer Col Roberts
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:*Senior Staff Officer [http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Frederick_Roberts,_1st_Earl_Roberts Col Frederick Roberts]
 
:*Brigade Major Capt Thomas
 
:*Brigade Major Capt Thomas
 
:*Aide-de-Camp Capt Butter
 
:*Aide-de-Camp Capt Butter
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:*Telegragh Mr Pitman
 
:*Telegragh Mr Pitman
 
'''Chittagong (Right) Column'''<br>
 
'''Chittagong (Right) Column'''<br>
''Brig-Gen Charles A Brownlow CB  commanding''
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''[http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Charles_Henry_Brownlow Brig-Gen Charles H Brownlow CB] commanding''
 
*Half [[Peshawar Mountain Battery]]
 
*Half [[Peshawar Mountain Battery]]
 
*No 3 Coy [[Bengal Sappers and Miners|Sappers & Miners]]  
 
*No 3 Coy [[Bengal Sappers and Miners|Sappers & Miners]]  
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*500 men [[2nd Gurkha Rifles|2nd Gurkhas]]
 
*500 men [[2nd Gurkha Rifles|2nd Gurkhas]]
 
*500 men [[4th Gurkha Rifles|4th Gurkhas]]
 
*500 men [[4th Gurkha Rifles|4th Gurkhas]]
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== Biographies ==
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Entries in the Dictionary of Indian Biography 1906<br>
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[http://www.archive.org/stream/dictionaryofindi00buckuoft#page/49/mode/1up George Bourchier (1821- 98)]<br>
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[http://www.archive.org/stream/dictionaryofindi00buckuoft#page/57/mode/1up Charles Brownlow (1831-1916)]<br>
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[http://www.archive.org/stream/dictionaryofindi00buckuoft#page/360/mode/1up Frederick Roberts (1832- 1914)]<br>
  
 
== External Links ==
 
== External Links ==
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[http://books.google.co.uk/books?id=GI-1rMckfpEC&pg=PA9&dq=Lushai+1871&as_brr=3&ei=vcL0SMTUK6W0zASZq-CQDA&sig=ACfU3U0KTpZU_EzMVVudPZwz0sqqgyHPEQ Lushai Expedition] Google Books<br>
 
[http://books.google.co.uk/books?id=GI-1rMckfpEC&pg=PA9&dq=Lushai+1871&as_brr=3&ei=vcL0SMTUK6W0zASZq-CQDA&sig=ACfU3U0KTpZU_EzMVVudPZwz0sqqgyHPEQ Lushai Expedition] Google Books<br>
 
[http://www.archive.org/stream/frontieroverseas04indi#page/244/mode/2up Lushai Expedition 1871-72] archive .org
 
[http://www.archive.org/stream/frontieroverseas04indi#page/244/mode/2up Lushai Expedition 1871-72] archive .org
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==== Historical books on-line ====
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''Forty-one Years in India from Subaltern to Commander-in-Chief'' by Field Marshal Lord Roberts od Kandahar 1900 [http://www.archive.org/stream/fortyoneyearsin00robe#page/310/mode/1up Lushai Expedition] archive.org
  
 
[[Category:Minor Campaigns]]
 
[[Category:Minor Campaigns]]
 
[[Category:Lushai Expedition 1871-72| Lushai Expedition]]
 
[[Category:Lushai Expedition 1871-72| Lushai Expedition]]

Revision as of 18:46, 10 January 2011

Lushai Expedition
1871-72
Chronological list of Wars and Campaigns
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Location: Lushai Hills, Mizoram
Combatants:
British army Lushai tribes
Result: Submission of tribes
Medals: India General Service Medal 1854
Clasp: Looshai
Links:
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 restored 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 and twenty maunds of rice (1 maund = approx 80 lbs).

Lushai Field Force

Cachar (Left) Column
General G Bourchier CB commanding

  • 1,440 coolies (Lt-Col Davidson)
  • 800 coolies for sepoys baggage (Maj Moore)
  • 121 elephants
  • Senior Staff Officer Col Frederick 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 H Brownlow CB commanding

Biographies

Entries in the Dictionary of Indian Biography 1906
George Bourchier (1821- 98)
Charles Brownlow (1831-1916)
Frederick Roberts (1832- 1914)

External Links

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

Historical books on-line

Forty-one Years in India from Subaltern to Commander-in-Chief by Field Marshal Lord Roberts od Kandahar 1900 Lushai Expedition archive.org