Anglo-Nepalese War

Anglo-Nepalese War

The death of Rollo Gillespie at the Battle of Nalapani
Date1 November 1814 – 4 March 1816
Location
Result

British victory.

Territorial
changes
Nepal renounced all claim to the disputed Tarai, and ceded its conquests west of the Kali River and extending to the Sutlej River.
Belligerents
East India Company Nepal Nepal
Commanders and leaders
Earl of Moira
Strength
First campaign:
  • 22,000 men with sixty cannons[3][4]
  • Second campaign:
  • 17,000[5]

100,000 Indian troops during both campaigns.

a little more than 11,000[6]
Casualties and losses
Unknown Unknown but very heavy.

The Anglo-Nepalese War (1 November 1814 – 4 March 1816), also known as the Gorkha War, was fought between the Gorkhali army of the Kingdom of Nepal (present-day Nepal) and the forces of the British East India Company (EIC). Both sides had ambitious expansion plans for the mountainous north of the Indian subcontinent. The war ended with a British victory and the signing of the Treaty of Sugauli in 1816, which ceded some of the Nepalese-controlled territory to the EIC. The British war effort was led by the EIC against the Kingdom of Gorkha. Most of the Kingdom of Gorkha's war effort was led by the two Thapa families: the Thapa dynasty and the family of Amar Singh Thapa.[note 2]


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  2. ^ Pradhan 2012, p. 50.
  3. ^ Olson, James Stuart; Shadle, Robert (1996). Historical Dictionary of the British Empire: A-J, Volume 1; Volume 6, pp. 493. Greenwood Press. ISBN 978-0-313-29367-2. Archived from the original on 27 April 2023. Retrieved 14 March 2023.
  4. ^ Raugh, Harold E. (25 October 2004). The Victorians at war, pp.155. Bloomsbury Academic. ISBN 978-1-57607-925-6. Archived from the original on 11 April 2023. Retrieved 14 March 2023.
  5. ^ Naravane (2006), p. 189
  6. ^ Smith 1852, p. 218
  7. ^ Prinsep 1825, p. 115.
  8. ^ "History of the Nepalese Army". nepalarmy.mil.np. Nepal Army. Archived from the original on 28 December 2017. Retrieved 16 January 2019.
  9. ^ Pradhan 2012, p. 26.
  10. ^ Anon 1816, p. 427.
  11. ^ Acharya 1971, p. 3.
  12. ^ Prinsep 1825, p. 93.