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Chin Lushai Expedition 1889-90
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Chin Lushai Expedition | |
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1889-90 | |
Chronological list of Wars and Campaigns | |
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Location: Chin State, Burma and Mizoram State, India | |
Combatants: | |
British | Chin and Lushai tribesmen |
Result: British victory | |
Medals: India General Service Medal 1854 Clasp: Chin Lushai 1889-90 | |
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Category: Chin Lushai Expedition 1889-90 | |
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Summary
Continued outrages following the expedition of 1871-72 led to a further campaign involving columns from Chittagong and Pakokku in Burma. A series of punitive raids on Lushai and Chin villages resulted in the submission of the tribes.
Burma Field force
Brig-Gen William Symons against Chin Tribes
Northern Column Colonel Skene DSO (1,622 troops)
- 1st Btn Cheshire Regiment (300)
- 42nd Gurkha Light Infantry (477)
- No 5 Coy Queen's Own Madras Sappers and Miners (95)
- 10th Bengal Infantry (460)
- 38th Bengal Infantry (260)
Southern Column Brig-Gen W P Symons (1,859 troops)
- 1st Btn King's Own Scottish Borderers (500)
- 1st Bengal Mountain Battery
- No 6 Coy Queen's Own Madras Sappers and Miners
- 2nd Battalion 4th Gurkhas
- 2nd Madras Infantry
- Burma Coy Queen's Own Madras Sappers and Miners
Chittagong Field Force
Col V W Tregear against Lushai Tribes (3,400 troops)
- 2nd Btn 2nd Gurkhas
- Wing 2nd Btn 4th Gurkhas
- 3rd Bengal Infantry
- Detachment 9th Bengal Infantry
- 28th Bombay Pioneers
- No 2 Coy Bengal Sappers and Miners
- Detachment Chittagong Frontier Police
Related articles
Historical books online
- "Field Operations, Chin -Lushai" Operations of the Burma and Chittagong Columns of the Chin-Lushai Expeditionary Force commencing November 1889 The London Gazette 12 September 1890 issue: 26087 page: 4931
- Summary of expedition Google Books
- "The Chin-Lushai Expeditions, 1889-90" page 330 Frontier and Overseas Expeditions from India Volume V: Burma. Compiled in the Intelligence Branch, Army Headquarters, India. 1907 Archive.org
- Lushai Operation archive.org
- Chin-Lushai Land including a Description of the Various Expeditions into the Chin-Lushai Hills and the Final Annexation of the Country by Surg.-Lieut.-Col. A S Reid, Indian Medical Service, Medical Officer in Charge 2nd Battalion, 4th Gurkha Rifles 1893. British Library Digital file.
- The Chin Hills: A History of the people. our dealings with them, their customs and manners, and a Gazetteer of their country by Bertram S Carey and H N Tuck 1896 Archive.org Volume I, Volume II. The digital files lack the original photographs
- War Medals and Their History by William Augustus Steward 1915 Archive.org
- Chin-Lushai 1889-90 page 222
- Burma 1889-92 page 224