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{{Battles_Infobox
|partof=[[:Category:Minor Campaigns|Minor Campaigns]]
|date=31 March-27 April 1891
|location=[http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Manipur Manipur State]
|presidency=[[Bengal]]
|co-ordinates=[http://maps.google.co.uk/maps?ll=24.776755,93.971011&z=8&t=h&hl=en 24.776755°N 93.971011°E]
|result=British victory
|territory=
|combatant1=British Army
|combatant2=Manipuris
|commander1=Kohima force: Maj Gen H. Collet<br>Silchar force: Col R.H.F. Rennick<br>Tamu force: Brig Gen T. Graham
|commander2=[http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Juvraj_Tikendrajit Tikendrajit]<br> Kullachandra<br>Thangal
|strength1=
|strength2=
|casualties1=
|casualties2=
}}
An operation in March and April 1891 following the murder of the Political Agent at Manipur.
The troops involved also included volunteers of the [[Calcutta and Presidency Battalion| Calcutta Rifle Corps]] and the [[Surma Valley Light Horse]]
==Records==
*British Library catalogue entry [http://hviewer.bl.uk/IamsHViewer/Default.aspx?mdark=ark:/81055/vdc_100000000028.0x0000a3 Collection 352 Manipur Operations 1891 (1891-1893)]. In addition, there are Private Papers Manuscript catalogue references, Mss Eur
*National Archives, Kew catalogue entries
**[http://discovery.nationalarchives.gov.uk/details/r/C6571112 PRO 30/40/12/3 Major General Sir John Charles Ardagh: Papers: Miscellaneous papers, including The Grimwoods and the Manipur disaste[r<nowiki>]</nowiki> 1891] . Sir John Ardagh was in 1891 Private Secretary to the Marquess of Lansdowne, Viceroy of India.
**[http://discovery.nationalarchives.gov.uk/details/r/C4414823 WO 106/145 The Manipur Expedition] War Office Correspondence and Papers
== External Links ==
*[http://marksimner.me.uk/the-manipur-expedition-of-1891/ "The Manipur Expedition Of 1891"] by Mark Simner 11 August 2015.
*[http://archivesmanipur.nic.in/whoswho.htm Manipur War 1891 - an Indian view] Manipur State Archives
*[http://dsal.uchicago.edu/maps/gazetteer/images/gazetteer_V11_bc.jpg Map of Eastern Bengal and Assam showing Manipur] University of Chicago
===Historical books online===
*[https://www.thegazette.co.uk/London/issue/26165/page/2805 Award of the Victoria Cross to Lieutenant Charles James William Grant] ''The London Gazette'' 26 May 1891 issue: 26165, page: 2805.
*[https://www.thegazette.co.uk/London/issue/26192/page/4369 "Field Operations- Manipur [March- April 1891<nowiki>]</nowiki>"] ''The London Gazette'' 14 August 1891 issue: 26192, page: 4369.
*[http://archive.org/stream/mythreeyearsinm01grimgoog#page/n12/mode/2up ''My Three Years in Manipur and Escape from the Recent Mutiny''] by Ethel St. Clair Grimwood 1891 Archive.org. The author was the wife of the murdered Political Agent at Manipur
**[http://archive.org/stream/mythreeyearsinm01grimgoog#page/n316/mode/2up Major Grant's Narrative] page 283
[[Category:Minor Campaigns|Manipur War 1891]]
|partof=[[:Category:Minor Campaigns|Minor Campaigns]]
|date=31 March-27 April 1891
|location=[http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Manipur Manipur State]
|presidency=[[Bengal]]
|co-ordinates=[http://maps.google.co.uk/maps?ll=24.776755,93.971011&z=8&t=h&hl=en 24.776755°N 93.971011°E]
|result=British victory
|territory=
|combatant1=British Army
|combatant2=Manipuris
|commander1=Kohima force: Maj Gen H. Collet<br>Silchar force: Col R.H.F. Rennick<br>Tamu force: Brig Gen T. Graham
|commander2=[http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Juvraj_Tikendrajit Tikendrajit]<br> Kullachandra<br>Thangal
|strength1=
|strength2=
|casualties1=
|casualties2=
}}
An operation in March and April 1891 following the murder of the Political Agent at Manipur.
The troops involved also included volunteers of the [[Calcutta and Presidency Battalion| Calcutta Rifle Corps]] and the [[Surma Valley Light Horse]]
==Records==
*British Library catalogue entry [http://hviewer.bl.uk/IamsHViewer/Default.aspx?mdark=ark:/81055/vdc_100000000028.0x0000a3 Collection 352 Manipur Operations 1891 (1891-1893)]. In addition, there are Private Papers Manuscript catalogue references, Mss Eur
*National Archives, Kew catalogue entries
**[http://discovery.nationalarchives.gov.uk/details/r/C6571112 PRO 30/40/12/3 Major General Sir John Charles Ardagh: Papers: Miscellaneous papers, including The Grimwoods and the Manipur disaste[r<nowiki>]</nowiki> 1891] . Sir John Ardagh was in 1891 Private Secretary to the Marquess of Lansdowne, Viceroy of India.
**[http://discovery.nationalarchives.gov.uk/details/r/C4414823 WO 106/145 The Manipur Expedition] War Office Correspondence and Papers
== External Links ==
*[http://marksimner.me.uk/the-manipur-expedition-of-1891/ "The Manipur Expedition Of 1891"] by Mark Simner 11 August 2015.
*[http://archivesmanipur.nic.in/whoswho.htm Manipur War 1891 - an Indian view] Manipur State Archives
*[http://dsal.uchicago.edu/maps/gazetteer/images/gazetteer_V11_bc.jpg Map of Eastern Bengal and Assam showing Manipur] University of Chicago
===Historical books online===
*[https://www.thegazette.co.uk/London/issue/26165/page/2805 Award of the Victoria Cross to Lieutenant Charles James William Grant] ''The London Gazette'' 26 May 1891 issue: 26165, page: 2805.
*[https://www.thegazette.co.uk/London/issue/26192/page/4369 "Field Operations- Manipur [March- April 1891<nowiki>]</nowiki>"] ''The London Gazette'' 14 August 1891 issue: 26192, page: 4369.
*[http://archive.org/stream/mythreeyearsinm01grimgoog#page/n12/mode/2up ''My Three Years in Manipur and Escape from the Recent Mutiny''] by Ethel St. Clair Grimwood 1891 Archive.org. The author was the wife of the murdered Political Agent at Manipur
**[http://archive.org/stream/mythreeyearsinm01grimgoog#page/n316/mode/2up Major Grant's Narrative] page 283
[[Category:Minor Campaigns|Manipur War 1891]]
