Regional1864 – 1865 · 1 year

Duar War

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Bengal Duars · Assam Duars · Dewangiri (Deothang)

Estimated casualties

Casualty figures unrecorded for this conflict.

The Duar War (Anglo-Bhutanese War) of 1864-65 was a brief conflict in which British India defeated Bhutan despite some Bhutanese battlefield successes. The 1865 Treaty of Sinchula forced Bhutan to cede the Assam and Bengal Duars in exchange for an annual subsidy.

Belligerents2

British India
Bhutan

ON THE MAPBritish India

Conflict graph

SUB-CONFLICTS · 1

Battle of Dewangiri1865

Sources

Wikipedia: Duar War
Jaques, Dictionary of Battles and Sieges
Wikipedia — text reused under CC BY-SA 4.0

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