The Chitral Expedition (Urdu:چترال فوجی مہم) was a military expedition in 1895 sent by the British authorities to relieve the fort at Chitral, which was...
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Chitral or Chitrāl (Persian: چترال) was a princely state in alliance with British India until 1947, then a princely state of Pakistan until 1972. The area...
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The Chitral Fort is a fortification in Chitral town, Khyber Pakhtunkhwa, Pakistan. The fort is situated on the banks of the Chitral River. Chitral Fort...
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Mahdist War (redirect from Soudan Expedition)
Mountains of south Kordofan around early November 1881. Another Egyptian expedition dispatched from Fashoda arrived around one month later; this force was...
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British Indian Army against tribal Chitralis during the Chitral Expedition. Following the siege on Chitral Fort by Chitrali forces led by Umra Khan, British...
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Hazara expedition (1888) Anglo Manipur War (1891) Hunza–Nagar Campaign (1891) Chitral Expedition (1895) 1897 Frontier Revolt Tochi Valley Expedition (1897–1898)...
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Reginald Dyer (category British military personnel of the Chitral Expedition)
Dyer served in the latter in the Black Mountain campaign (1888), the Chitral Relief (1895) (promoted to captain in 1896) and the Mahsud blockade (1901–02)...
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Sir Fenton Aylmer, 13th Baronet (category British military personnel of the Chitral Expedition)
recognition of his services during the Hunza-Nagar Expedition, and was part of the Chitral Expedition in 1895. Further service with the Royal Engineers...
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The Benin Expedition of 1897 was a punitive expedition by a British force of 1,200 men under Sir Harry Rawson. It came in response to the ambush and slaughter...
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Arthur George Hammond (category British military personnel of the Chitral Expedition)
of 1888 and 1891 (CB and Mention), commanded BDe in the Isazai Expedition 1892, Chitral Relief Force 1895 (Mention and thanks of Indian Government), and...
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the death of it Chief Aman ul-Mulk, the subsequent Siege of Chitral and the Chitral Expedition. The book was written by Harry Craufuird Thomson with its...
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Umra Khan (category Chitral (princely state))
north-western frontier of British India, who was chiefly responsible for the Chitral Expedition of 1895. He was the Khan of Jandol and captured the state of Dir and...
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Charles Doughty-Wylie (category British military personnel of the Chitral Expedition)
Military College, Sandhurst in 1889. His military career included the Chitral Expedition of 1895 and the 1898 Occupation of Crete, between and after which...
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Ian Hamilton (British Army officer) (category British military personnel of the Chitral Expedition)
awarded the Distinguished Service Order in 1891. He took part in the Chitral Expedition as military secretary to Sir George Stuart White, commander in chief...
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Sir William Robertson, 1st Baronet (category British military personnel of the Chitral Expedition)
took part in the Chitral Expedition as Brigade Intelligence Officer. He was described by Lieutenant-General Sir Robert Low, the Expedition Commander, as...
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Second Opium War (redirect from Anglo-French expedition to China (1856-1860))
repeated acts of aggression against British subjects led in 1847 to the Expedition to Canton which assaulted and took, by a coup de main, the forts of the...
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Charles Townshend (British Army officer) (category British military personnel of the Chitral Expedition)
latest plays popular in Paris. In January 1895, he was sent to north of Chitral, a remote town in the extreme north of India almost on the borders with...
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the Scarpe (1918) Battle of Bau Battle of Bergendal Channel Dash Chitral Expedition Second Battle of Colenso (Colenso) Battle of Crete Operation Crusader...
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French and Indian War (section Céloron's expedition)
government fell due to disastrous campaigns in 1757, including a failed expedition against Louisbourg and the Siege of Fort William Henry; this last was...
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Crimean War (redirect from Crimean expedition)
in the Emperor's views, and he is making every preparation for a land expedition in case the last attempt at negotiation should break down". Burgoyne and...
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Pontiac's War (redirect from Boquet Expedition)
the region. Hostilities came to an end after successful British Army expeditions in 1764 led to peace negotiations over the next two years. The Natives...
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Hunza–Nagar Campaign (redirect from Hunza-Nagar Expedition)
autonomy under British rule. They provided valuable services during the Chitral expedition. In the early 1900s, the British constructed an all-weather pony track...
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area of Chitral District Kunar River or Chitral River, a river in Afghanistan and Pakistan Kunar Valley or Chitral Valley Chitral Expedition, an 1895...
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R (1869) A History of the Abyssinian Expedition (Macmillan & Co); p. 325. Beynon, L. (1895) With Kelly To Chitral Holt Bodinson (March 2006), "Britain's...
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George Scott Robertson (category British military personnel of the Chitral Expedition)
Chitral. He chronicled his Kafiristan experience in the book The Kafirs of the Hindu Kush. Some have suggested that Robertson's year-long expedition and...
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East India Company. The British government responded by sending a naval expedition to force the Chinese government to pay reparations and allow the opium...
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Duar War (redirect from Bhutan expedition)
(1894–1905) Chitral Expedition (1895) Jameson Raid South Africa (1896) Anglo-Zanzibar War (1896) Matabeleland (1896–97) Benin Expedition (1897) Siege...
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in 1895 when the Chitral Expedition was dispatched. The record of the book is based on The Gazette of India, The Blue Book on Chitral affairs presented...
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War of 1812 (redirect from Expedition to the Chesapeake (1813))
May with supplies and more than 400 militia and Indians, then sent an expedition which successfully besieged and recaptured the key trading post of Prairie...
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Shimonoseki campaign (redirect from Shimonoseki Expedition, Japan)
launched its own preparations for a punitive expedition against Chōshū, the First Chōshū expedition. The expedition was aimed at punishing the 1864 Kinmon incident...
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