| British conquest of Sindh | |||||||||
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| Part of Company rule in India | |||||||||
_-_The_Battle_of_Meeanee,_17_February_1843_-_RCIN_407185_-_Royal_Collection.jpg) A painting depicting combat on the city of Miani by Edward Armitage | |||||||||
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| Belligerents | |||||||||
.svg){kind=small} East India Company | Talpurs of Sindh | ||||||||
| Commanders and leaders | |||||||||
 Captain James Outram Sir Charles Napier[1] Captain Sir Thomas Maitland |
Mir Sher Muhammad Talpur Hoshu Sheedi † | ||||||||
| Units involved | |||||||||
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1st Troop Bombay Horse Artillery, 9th Bombay Light Horse, 1st Grenadier Regiment of Bombay Native Infantry, 12th Bombay Native Infantry, 21st Bombay Native Infantry, 25th Bombay Native Infantry, 22nd Cheshire Regiment of foot, Poona Irregular Horse 36th Jacob's Horse HMS Wellesley (1815) and HMS Algerine | Unknown/Local Units | ||||||||
| Strength | |||||||||
| 8,800[2] | 45,000[2] | ||||||||
| Casualties and losses | |||||||||
| 520[3] | 4,000[4] | ||||||||
The British conquest of Sindh was a successful British military campaign and conquest of Sindh into the British India from the rule of the Talpurs. The East India Company, supported by the British Army and Royal Navy, in India oversaw the campaign between February and March of 1843—two major battles were fought namely Battle of Hyderabad and Battle of Miani.[5]
With the Royal Navy capturing the strategic outpost and Karachi, the British Army engaged in successfully capturing Sindh and Punjab that allowed protecting India from Persian or Afghan conquests while protecting British interests in Northwest India.
- ^ Outram, James (2009). The Conquest of Scinde: A Commentary. Bibliolife. p. 451. ISBN 978-0-559-94134-4.
- ^ a b Sir Charles James Napier - Encyclopædia Britannica Eleventh Edition
- ^ The History of British India: A Chronology by John F. Riddick
- ^ Moon, The British Conquest and Dominion of India, p. 574.
- ^ Khuhro, Hamida (1998). Mohammed Ayub Khuhro: A Life Of Courage In Politics. Oxford University Press. p. 18. ISBN 969-0-01424-2.