The Nagas

Hill Peoples of Northeast India

Project Introduction The Naga Database

published - Chapter III 'Detailed Report on the Naga Hills Expedition of 1878-80', Capt. P.J. Maitland

caption: field forces at Piphema
medium: reports
person: Cock/ Maj.MacGregor/ Lt.DeRenzy/ Dep. SurgeonRaban/ Lt.Wingate/ Lt.Boileau/ Lt.
location: Zubza R. (Zumha R.) Samaguting Deopani Hariajan Barpathar (Borpathar) Golaghat Kohima
production:
person: Maitland/ Capt. P.J.
date: 1880
acquirer:
person: India Office Library, London
refnum: IOR L/MIL/17/18/24
text: At Piphima.
text: Head Quarters of the Field Force, Brigadier General and Staff ( The full staff of the expedition was as under:-
text: _______________Major_Cock,_Deputy_Assistant_Adjutant_General. Lieutenant___MacGregor,___44th__Sylhet__Light__Infantry,___Deputy Assistant_Quarter_Master_General.
___________Deputy__Surgeon__General__DeRenzy,__Principal__Medical Officer.
_____________Lieutenant_Raban,R.E.,_Field_Engineer.
_________Lieutenant_Wingate,_Chief_Commissariat_Officer.
_______Lieutenant_Boileau,__44th_Sylhet_Light__Infantry,__Provost Marshall.
_____(Major__Cock_was_afterwards_succeeded_by_Major__Evans,__43rd Assam_Light_Infantry.))
____43rd_Assam_Light_Infantry__________...___104_all_Native_ranks
____44th_Sylhet_Light_Infantry_________...___412______Ditto
_______________________Total___________...___516
_________________At_Kohima.
text: ____43rd_Assam_Light_Infantry__________...___140_all_Native_ranks
____34th_Native_Infantry_______________...____34______Ditto
_______________________Total___________...___174
______________On_the_Communications.
text: ____Zumha_____________...______________...____18_all_Native_ranks
____Samaguting________...______________...____31______Ditto
____Deopani___________...______________...____11______Ditto
____Hariajan__________...______________...____12______Ditto
____Borpathar_________...______________...____10______Ditto
_______________________Total___________...____82
______________At_Golaghat_(the_base).
text: ____42nd_Assam_Light_Infantry__________...____94_all_Native_ranks
____43rd_Assam_Light_Infantry__________..._____5______Ditto
____44th_Sylhet__Light_Infantry________...___125______Ditto
_______________________Total___________...___224
text: __________________At_Woka.
text: ____44th_Sylhet_Light_Infantry_________...____51_all_Native_ranks
_______________________Total___________...____51
text: ________________En_route_with_guns.
text: ____44th_Sylhet_Light_Infantry_________...____88_all_Native_ranks
_______________________Total___________...____88
text: Grand total 1,135, with two mountain guns.
text: There were in addition about 200 frontier police available for strengthening the posts on the line of communications and for escort duty,&c. Wooden stockades, or stone built defences, existed at all the posts from Piphima downwards. The cooperation of the Manipuri force was also expected.
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