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East India ==== Bengal Troops ====*[[1st Bengal (European) Fusiliers|Bengal European Regiment]]: 200 rank and file *Volunteer Battalion: 650 Bengal flintlocks *European Artillery: 100 including x8 18pounderseight 18-pounders, x4 12poundersfour 12-pounders, 2 8inch two 8 inch mortars==== Madras Troops ====Madras *[[30th Regiment of Foot|HM 30th Foot]]: 2 companies Departed August 1808: Bengal
Returned Feb 1809: Bengal<ref>== External Links ==[http://wwwbooks.google.comco.uk/books?id=GR2URX7SRQkC3iFuAAAAMAAJ&pg=PA180PA227&dq=thomasMacao+MExpedition+weguelin1809&as_brr=13&cd=15#v=onepage&q=thomasMacao%20M20Expedition%20weguelin201809&f=false ''East India Military Calendar''Macao Expedition] Vol 1, p182-184</ref>Google Books
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{{War|name=Macau Expedition |dates=1809 |image= |location=Macau, China |combatant1=East India Company: Bengal |combatant2=The "French" |result=Withdrawal |medal=| category=Wars and Campaigns|Macau Expedition |link1= }}
==Summary==
[http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Earl_of_Minto Lord Minto] sent the 1809 expedition with [http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/William_O'Bryen_Drury Rear Admiral Drury] to defend Portuguese colonial interests at [[Macao]] (Macau)<ref>[http://books.google.co.uk/books?id=TNY2AAAAMAAJ&pg=PA247&lpg=PA247&dq=defend+the+Portuguese+at+Macao+against+the+French&source=bl&ots=MtXdrdLUek&sig=MkGUYPDu-RhFW5BQy9xe96kCrm0&hl=en&ei=qH6qS5egOYegsgPp6tThBQ&sa=X&oi=book_result&ct=result&resnum=4&ved=0CBQQ6AEwAw#v=onepage&q=defend%20the%20Portuguese%20at%20Macao%20against%20the%20French&f=false Macau Expedition] in ''The History of India'' Vol 2, John Clark Marshman (1867)</ref> against the French after Napoleon occupied Portugal.
Seeing it as disrespectful, the Chinese objected and stopped trading with the [[East India Company]]. With no credible French threat to Macau, and not wishing to upset relations with China, the British withdrew and returned to India.
Major Thomas Mathias Weguelin<ref>[http://www.archive.org/stream/dictionaryofindi00buckuoft#page/444/mode/2up/search/weguelin ''Dictionary Of Indian Biography''] C. E. Buckland, 1906 </ref> of the Bengal European Regiment led the expedition, a local rank of Colonel was awarded to him for the expedition, to ensure rank seniority to any Portugese troops encountered. Then Colonel Weguelin, he participated in the [[Battle of Mauritius]] 1810-12 - the defence of another Portugese interest, serving as the [[Commissariat General]].
==Deployment==
Departed: June & July 1809 from Madras and Calcutta<br>Arrived Oct 1808Macau: 11 September and 20th October 1809<br>Departed Macau: 23 December 1809<br>Returned to Bengal: Feb 1809<ref>[http://www.google.com/books?id=GR2URX7SRQkC&pg=PA180&dq=thomas+M+weguelin&as_brr=1&cd=1#v=onepage&q=thomas%20M%20weguelin&f=false ''East India Military Calendar''] Vol 1, p182-184</ref>
==Notes==
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