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[http://www.archive.org/stream/dictionaryofindi00buckuoft#page/22/mode/1up Robert Baigrie] (18??-1877)]<br>
[http://www.archive.org/stream/dictionaryofindi00buckuoft#page/170/mode/1up Charles Goodfellow] (1836-915)]<br>
[http://www.archive.org/stream/dictionaryofindi00buckuoft#page/286/mode/1up William Merewether ] (1825-1880)]<br>[http://www.archive.org/stream/dictionaryofindi00buckuoft#page/312/mode/2up Robert Napier] (1810-1890)]<br>[http://www.archive.org/stream/dictionaryofindi00buckuoft#page/336/mode/1up Robert Phayre] (1820-1897)]<br>[http://www.archive.org/stream/dictionaryofindi00buckuoft#page/452/mode/2up Henry Wilkins ] (1828-1896)]<br>
== Reconnoitring party ==
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*Lt-Col Sir William Merewether CB
*Lt-Col Sir Robert Phayre CB, Quartermaster-General
*Lieut Henriel
*Surgeon Lumsdaine
*Asst Surg Surgeon Martin
*1 Coy Marine Battalion
*8 Sappers and Miners
*3rd Bombay Light Cavalry (40 men)
*149 mules
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== Campaign Forces ==
 
'''British Army'''<br>
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*[[3rd (Prince of Wales') Dragoon Guards]]
*[[4th Regiment of Foot|4th (The King's Own Royal) Regiment of Foot]]
*[[33rd Regiment of Foot|33rd (Duke of Wellington's) Regiment of Foot]]
*[[45th Regiment of Foot|45th (Sherwood Foresters) Regt of Foot]]<br>
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'''Indian Army'''<br>
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*[[10th Bengal Light Cavalry]]
*[[12th Bengal Cavalry|12th Regiment of Bengal Cavalry]]
*Corps of [[Madras Sappers and Miners]]
*Corps of [[Bombay Sappers and Miners]]
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'''Transport train'''<br>
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*7,365 camels
*11,155 mules
*305 mule carts
*345 bullock carts
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== Campaign Actions ==
[http://www.archive.org/stream/frontieroverseas06indi#page/64/mode/2up ''Frontier and Overseas Expeditions from India Vol VI - Abyssinian Campaign 1868''] archive.org<br />
''Forty-one Years in India from Subaltern to Commander-in-Chief'' by Field Marshal Lord Roberts of Kandahar 1900 [http://www.archive.org/stream/fortyoneyearsin00robe#page/298/mode/2up Abyssinian Campaign] archive.org<br />
''Minutes of proceedings of the Royal Artillery Institution, Volume 6 1870, pages 167-202'' by Lieutenant E F Chapman (Google Books):*[http://books.google.com/books?id=rncDAAAAYAAJ&pg=PA167 "The Abyssinian Expedition"] by Lieutenant E F Chapman (Google Books):*[http://books.google.com/books?id=rncDAAAAYAAJ&pg=PA191 "Notes on elephant carriage and steel mountain batteries employed in Abyssinia"]
[[Category:Wars and Campaigns|Abyssinian Campaign 1868]]
[[Category:Abyssinian Campaign| Abyssinian Campaign]]
[[Category:Campaigns with FIBIS Battle Maps|Abyssinian Campaign]]

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