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{{War|name=Lushai Expedition |dates=1871-72 |image=|location=[http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Lushai_hills Lushai Hills], [http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Mizoram#Origin Mizoram]|combatant1=British army |combatant2=Lushai tribes|result= Submission of tribes|medal=[http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/India_General_Service_Medal_(1854)  India General Service Medal 1854]<br>Clasp: Looshai
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|date=1871-2
 
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|location=[http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Lushai_hills Lushai Hills], [http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Mizoram#Origin Mizoram]
 
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|commander1=[http://www.oxforddnb.com/index/101035768/ Lieut Col Frederick Roberts]<br> Gen Bourchier
 
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|commander2=Savoonga<br>Raja Vonolel
 
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== External Links ==
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== Summary ==
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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 Google Books - Lushai Expedition]
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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:
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# Free Government access to tribal villages
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# Captured guns to be returned
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# 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 ==
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'''Cachar (Left) Column'''<br>
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''[http://www.archive.org/stream/dictionaryofindi00buckuoft#page/49/mode/1up/search/Bourchier General G Bourchier CB] commanding''
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*Half [[Peshawar Mountain Battery]] (Capt Blackwood RA)
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*No 1 Coy [[Bengal Sappers and Miners|Sappers & Miners]] (Lt Harvey RE)
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*500 men [[22nd Regiment of Punjab Infantry|22nd Punjaub Native Infantry]] (Colonel Stafford)
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*500 men [[42nd Gurkha Rifles|42nd Assam Light Infantry]] (Col Rattray CB)
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*500 men [[44th Gurkha Rifles|44th Assam Light Infantry]] (Col Hicks)
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*100 Police (Mr Daly)
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*Support
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:*1,440 coolies (Lt-Col Davidson)
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:*800 coolies for sepoys baggage (Maj Moore)
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:*121 elephants
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:*Senior Staff Officer [[Frederick Roberts|Col Frederick Roberts]]
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:*Brigade Major Capt Thomas
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:*Aide-de-Camp Capt Butter
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:* Inspector General of Hospitals Dr Buckle
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:*Political Officer Mr Edgar
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:*Topographical Survey Capt Badgley
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:*Telegragh Mr Pitman
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'''Chittagong (Right) Column'''<br>
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''[[Charles Brownlow|Brig-Gen Charles H Brownlow CB]]  commanding''
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*Half [[Peshawar Mountain Battery]]
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*No 3 Coy [[Bengal Sappers and Miners|Sappers & Miners]]
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*500 men [[27th Regiment of Punjab Infantry|27th Punjaub Native Infantry]]
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*500 men [[2nd Gurkha Rifles|2nd Gurkhas]]
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*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>
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== External links ==
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[http://books.google.co.uk/books?id=0LMaMhrZ72AC&pg=PA109&dq=Looshai&as_brr=3&ei=NNf0SK_QMIm6zATdh6mKCA&sig=ACfU3U2rDBX9CsCoH3we7f7J6TbPdZWZkQ#PPA109,M1 Roberts' Lushai  Campaign] Google Books<br>
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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>
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[http://www.archive.org/stream/frontieroverseas04indi#page/244/mode/2up Lushai Expedition 1871-72] archive .org
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====Historical books online ====
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*[https://archive.org/details/flyonwheelorhowi00lewiiala/page/254/mode/2up "The Lushai Expedition 1871-72"] page 255 ''A fly on the wheel; or, How I helped to govern India'' by Lieut.-Col. Thomas H Lewin 1912, first published  1885. Archive.org. At the time, he was Deputy Commissioner and Political Agent of the Hill Tracts of Chittagong.
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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
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[[Category:Minor Campaigns]]
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[[Category:Lushai Expedition 1871-72| Lushai Expedition]]

Latest revision as of 02:16, 18 January 2021

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 online

  • "The Lushai Expedition 1871-72" page 255 A fly on the wheel; or, How I helped to govern India by Lieut.-Col. Thomas H Lewin 1912, first published 1885. Archive.org. At the time, he was Deputy Commissioner and Political Agent of the Hill Tracts of Chittagong.
  • Forty-one Years in India from Subaltern to Commander-in-Chief by Field Marshal Lord Roberts od Kandahar 1900 Lushai Expedition archive.org
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