1816 Darjeeling Campaign

1816 Darjeeling Campaign
Part of the Sikh and Aurucolian War of the Sandoric Wars
Date 12 January 1816 – 30 January 1816 Location Darjeeling, Indiae Result Lucian victory Tea trade between Lucis Indiae and Nihhon-koku preseved.
Belligerents
Lucis East Indiae Company Chiyoda Company Regiment Kingdom of Gorkhali	Sikh Empire Aurucolian East Indiae Company
Commanders and leaders
Richard Kelkirk-Kitagawa Akina Sumiyoshi Raj Vajracharya	Arnold Rácz Martin Dobos Bakhtawer Wahandi
Strength
15,750	20,000
Casualties and losses
251 wounded or killed	1,589 wounded or killed

The 1816 Darjeeling Campaign (12 January 1816 - 30 January 1816) was a campaign that took place in the Tea plantation region of Darjeeling. The campaign was to prove crucial to the Lucis war effort as trade in Indiae depended on Tea and Nihhon-koku was a crucial buyer of tea in Indiae. Tea also was another reason for the morale boost of the Lucian troops and General Martin Dobos believed that destroying it would break the morale of Lucian troops in the region.

The campaign ended with the capture of the city of Darjeeling, in which Nihhonese and Lucian troops prevented a large-scale attempt of destroying the tea industry in the region, thereby preserving the tea trade between Indiae and Nihhon-koku.