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December 1856 CE
The British Government has decided to attack in the general area of Bushire/Bushehr, the primary port of entry into Persia at this time.
It orders the Government in India to launch a maritime expeditionary force.
In the aftermath of the disastrous First Afghan War, the British are reluctant to send a force through Afghanistan to relieve Herat directly.
Instead, they elect to attack the Persians on the Persian Gulf coast.
Initially a division, under Major General Foster Stalker, is organized comprising twenty-three hundred British soldiers and thirty-four hundred Indian sepoys of the Bombay Presidency army, which lands in Persia in early December 1856.
This included two companies of the Bombay Sappers & Miners.
The first division of the expedition disembarks in the neighborhood of Bushehr on December 5, 1856.
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