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The '''Scinde Medal''' was authorised on 22 September 1843 and issued to soldiers of the [[Honourable East India Company]], the [[22nd Regiment of Foot]] of the [[British Army]] and members of the [[History of the Indian Navy#Colonial Indian Navy|Indian Navy]] who manned the Indus Flotilla, who participated in Major General [[Charles James Napier|Sir Charles Napier's]] conquest of [[Sindh|Scinde]] between 1842 and 1843.<ref>{{Cite book|author=Edward C. Joslin.|title=Observer's Book of British Awards and Medals.|page=85. Published Frederick Warne & Co, London. 1974}}</ref>

Sir Charles Napier was sent to Scinde for the purpose of quelling the [[Amirs]] of [[Sindh]], Mir Rustam Khan Talpur, [[Mir Nasir Khan Talpur]] and [[Mir Sher Muhammad Talpur]].  They had made various hostile demonstrations against the British government after the termination of the [[First Anglo-Afghan War]], conducting frequent raids on British convoys travelling between [[India]] and [[Afghanistan]]. General Napier's campaign against these Amirs resulted, after the victories of [[Battle of Miani|Miani]] and [[Battle of Hyderabad|Hyderabad]], in the complete subjugation of the province of Sindh, and its annexation to the [[Bombay Presidency]] of the [[British Raj]].<ref>{{Cite book|author=Frank H. Wallis.|title=A History of the British Conquest of Afghanistan and Western India, 1838 to 1849.|year=2009|pages=111–120. The Edwin Mellen Press. 2009|isbn=978-0773446755}}</ref>