Newspaper reports on the Duffla Expedition
- Date:
- 1874-1875
- Reference:
- MS.7859
- Part of:
- Ross, James Tyrrell Carter, F.R.C.S. D.I.G. S.S.C Cantab, C.I.E. (1823-1897), Surgeon and medical officer, British Army in India, Indian Medical Service
- Archives and manuscripts
About this work
Description
Exercise book containing pasted-in newspaper reports (from The Englishman and The Pioneer) on The Duffla Expedition, Nov 1874-Jan 1875, in which Ross participated.
The Expedition was led by British forces commanding mainly native infantry and was sent to rescue inhabitants of Amtolla, a village in the east of the Durrang district, near the Dikrung River, Assam, who had been captured by the Dufflas as compensation for people they had lost to a recent epidemic of whooping cough.
The exercise book appears originally to have belonged to Edith Charlotte Ross, and was used by her to practise German handwriting, extracts of which can be seen on parts of pages not covered by cuttings.
Publication/Creation
1874-1875
Physical description
18ff. ff. 1-5 are numbered in ms 3-11.
Finding aids
Database description transcribed from Richard Aspin and Christopher Hilton's typescript supplement to S.A.J Moorat's Catalogue of Western Manuscripts
Where to find it
Location Status Access Closed stores