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[[Category:Battles]]{{Battles_InfoboxWar|partofname=Assam SkirmishesLushai Expedition |datedates=1871-272 |image=|location=[http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Lushai_hills Lushai Hills], [http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Mizoram#Origin Mizoram] |presidency=[[Bengal]] |co-ordinates=[http://maps.google.co.uk/maps?ll=23.342484,92.773458&z=8&t=h&hl=en 23.342484°N 92.773458°E] |result=British victory |territory=|combatant1=British Armyarmy |combatant2=Lushai tribesmentribes|result= Submission of tribes|commander1medal=[http://wwwen.oxforddnbwikipedia.comorg/indexwiki/101035768/ Lieut Col Frederick RobertsIndia_General_Service_Medal_(1854) India General Service Medal 1854]<br> Gen BourchierClasp: Looshai |commander2category=Savoonga<br>Raja Vonolel [[:Category:Lushai Expedition 1871-72|strength1= Lushai Expedition 1871-72]] |strength2link1= |casualties1= |casualties2= }}

== 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:# Free Government access to tribal villages# 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). == Lushai Field Force =='''Cachar (Left) Column'''<br>''[http://www.archive.org/stream/dictionaryofindi00buckuoft#page/49/mode/1up/search/Bourchier General G Bourchier CB] commanding''*Half [[Peshawar Mountain Battery]] (Capt Blackwood RA)*No 1 Coy [[Bengal Sappers and Miners|Sappers & Miners]] (Lt Harvey RE)*500 men [[22nd Regiment of Punjab Infantry|22nd Punjaub Native Infantry]] (Colonel Stafford)*500 men [[42nd Gurkha Rifles|42nd Assam Light Infantry]] (Col Rattray CB)*500 men [[44th Gurkha Rifles|44th Assam Light Infantry]] (Col Hicks)*100 Police (Mr Daly)*Support:*1,440 coolies (Lt-Col Davidson):*800 coolies for sepoys baggage (Maj Moore):*121 elephants:*Senior Staff Officer [[Frederick Roberts|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'''<br>''[[Charles Brownlow|Brig-Gen Charles H Brownlow CB]] commanding''*Half [[Peshawar Mountain Battery]]*No 3 Coy [[Bengal Sappers and Miners|Sappers & Miners]] *500 men [[27th Regiment of Punjab Infantry|27th Punjaub Native Infantry]]*500 men [[2nd Gurkha Rifles|2nd Gurkhas]]*500 men [[4th Gurkha Rifles|4th Gurkhas]] == Biographies ==Entries in the Dictionary of Indian Biography 1906<br>[http://www.archive.org/stream/dictionaryofindi00buckuoft#page/49/mode/1up George Bourchier (1821- 98)]<br>[http://www.archive.org/stream/dictionaryofindi00buckuoft#page/57/mode/1up Charles Brownlow (1831-1916)]<br>[http://www.archive.org/stream/dictionaryofindi00buckuoft#page/360/mode/1up Frederick Roberts (1832- 1914)]<br> == External Links links ==[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>[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 ====Historical books online ====*[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.*''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:Lushai Expedition 1871- 72| Lushai Expedition]]