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The Chin Expedition: burning of the village of Dimpi, in the Kanhow country, after its capture, 1890 Creator: Unknown.

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The Chin Expedition: burning of the village of Dimpi, in the Kanhow country, after its capture, 1890. The British Army in India and Burma. 'The Northern Column - with Kalewa, on the Chindwin, and Kalymyo, on the Mitha, as its river bases - has its headquarters at Fort White. This force is under Colonel Skene, D.S.O., and is composed of the 10th and 38th Bengal Infantry, which hold the valley and the stockades on the road to Fort White; one company of Burmah Sappers and Miners under Captain Hill, R.E.; a company of Madras Sappers and Miners, under Lieutenant Chapman. R.E., a detachment of the Cheshire Regiment, under Major Edge; and the 42nd Goorkha Light Infantry, under Colonel Skene...We are indebted to Lieutenant W. Hussey Walsh, of the 1st Battalion of the Cheshire Regiment, with the Northern Column of the Chin Expedition, under command of Colonel Skene, for two Sketches. [One shows] the burning of a captured village of the enemy, named Dimpi, in the Kanhow country, on Nov. 27. by a detachment commanded by Major Edge, consisting of sixty men of the Cheshire Regiment and sixty of the 42nd Goorkha Light Infantry. Dimpi is of some importance for the salt-mines in its neighbourhood. Much grain in store, belonging to the Chins, was destroyed'. From "Illustrated London News", 1890.

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