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== External Links ==
 
== External Links ==
 
*[http://www.nam.ac.uk/online-collection/detail.php?acc=1963-11-4-1  Painting: 'Trukkee, 28th February 1845, an incident during Sir Charles Napier's Hill campaign in Baluchistan, 1845'] National Army Museum
 
*[http://www.nam.ac.uk/online-collection/detail.php?acc=1963-11-4-1  Painting: 'Trukkee, 28th February 1845, an incident during Sir Charles Napier's Hill campaign in Baluchistan, 1845'] National Army Museum
*Victorian Wars Forum  [http://www.victorianwars.com/viewtopic.php?f=80&t=7038 thread] about  an incident involving the [[13th Regiment of Foot]], including a painting.  This painting may also be seen in the following link: Click on right hand top corner to enlarge.
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*[http://www.bbc.co.uk/arts/yourpaintings/paintings/the-red-thread-of-honour-heights-of-truckee-1845-41012  Painting: 'The Red Thread of Honour: Heights of Truckee, 1845'] by David Cunliffe painted 1846. Collection of the  Somerset Military Museum . Your Paintings bbc.co.uk Story behind painting can be found at [http://riflesmuseum.co.uk/wp-content/uploads/2014/01/The-Rifles-History.pdf page 9 of The Rifles History] riflesmuseum.co.uk
*[http://www.bbc.co.uk/arts/yourpaintings/paintings/the-red-thread-of-honour-heights-of-truckee-1845-41012  Painting: 'The Red Thread of Honour: Heights of Truckee, 1845'] by David Cunliffe painted 1846. Collection of the  Somerset Military Museum . Your Paintings bbc.co.uk
 
  
 
=== Historical books online===
 
=== Historical books online===
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**[http://books.google.com.au/books?id=d84BAAAAMAAJ&pg=PA403 "Notes by Major Beatson, on his Separate Operations, and March to blockade the Northern Entrance of Trukkee, 1845, written at the time"], page 403
 
**[http://books.google.com.au/books?id=d84BAAAAMAAJ&pg=PA403 "Notes by Major Beatson, on his Separate Operations, and March to blockade the Northern Entrance of Trukkee, 1845, written at the time"], page 403
 
*[http://books.google.com.au/books?id=_pMNAAAAQAAJ&pg=PA55  1845], page 55  ''Record Book of the Scinde Irregular Horse Volume 1'', 1856 Google Books
 
*[http://books.google.com.au/books?id=_pMNAAAAQAAJ&pg=PA55  1845], page 55  ''Record Book of the Scinde Irregular Horse Volume 1'', 1856 Google Books
====Restricted access Google Books====
 
Probably accessible by those in North America
 
*[http://books.google.com/books?id=4vsbAQAAIAAJ&q=Truckee+Upper+Scinde&dq=Truckee+Upper+Scinde&hl=en&sa=X&ei=bs2zT7neLcqjiAeqqZCLCQ&sqi=2&redir_esc=y  ''The United Service Magazine 1893''] page 1214 (snippet Google search result: there is a description of an incident in the storming of Truckee Hill, Fort Scinde, which may be the foundation of the story. ... the six to one computation is the best to accept Of the eleven British soldiers who reached the top, ...)
 
 
  
  
 
[[Category:Truckee Campaign 1845]]
 
[[Category:Truckee Campaign 1845]]
 
[[Category:Minor Campaigns]]
 
[[Category:Minor Campaigns]]

Revision as of 21:15, 1 June 2014

Truckee Campaign
Part of Minor Campaigns
Date: 16 January-19 March 1845
Location: Truckee fortress, Deyrah, near Jacobabad, Sind
Presidency: Bombay
Co-ordinates: 28.501098°N 68.322259°E
Result: Submission of tribes
Combatants
East India Company Bugti, Baluchi Tribesmen
Commanders
Maj Gen Sir Charles Napier
Strength
Casualties

Alternative spelling: Trukkee, Traki

External Links

Historical books online