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==Summary ==
The immediate cause of the punitive expedition was the assassination in [[Malaysia|Malaya]] of the British resident [http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/James_W.W._Birch J.W.W.Birch] Government adviser to Sultan Abdullah Muhammad Shah II the [http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Sultan_of_Perak Sultan of Perak]. An expeditionary force undwr Maj Gen The Hon. Francis Colbourne CB and Brig Gen John Ross was sent which fought a number of engagements subduing the territory which was occupied for a year.
==Perak Expeditionary Force ==
*[http://en.wikisource.org/wiki/Corresp:_Actions_of_Perak_Expeditionary_Force_post-murder_of_Birch Correspondence on Actions of the Expeditionary Force] Wikisource<br>
*[http://www.sabrizain.org/malaya/perak.htm The Perak War] sabrizain.org
*[http://www.kaiserscross.com/304501/471964.html The Perak War 1875-1876 and the award of a Victoria Cross to a Goorkha officer: The British colonial advance into Malaya] by Harry Fecitt from [http://www.kaiserscross.com/304501/home.html Harry’s Sideshows] (kaiserscross.com)
===Historical books online===
*[http://www.archive.org/stream/frontieroverseas06indi#page/346/mode/2up ''Frontier and Overseas Expeditions from India Vol VI -Perak 1875''] archive.org
