Campaigns on the North-west Frontier
Author : Hugh Lewis Nevill
Publisher :
Page : 458 pages
File Size : 36,75 MB
Release : 1912
Category : India
ISBN :
Author : Hugh Lewis Nevill
Publisher :
Page : 458 pages
File Size : 36,75 MB
Release : 1912
Category : India
ISBN :
Author : Robert Wilkinson-Latham
Publisher : Osprey Publishing
Page : 0 pages
File Size : 19,50 MB
Release : 1977-12-25
Category : History
ISBN : 9780850452754
For over a hundred years British and Indian troops were engaged on the North-West Frontier of India, policing the tribes, mounting expeditions, and guarding against the ever-present threat from Russia. Populated mainly by Pathans, one of the fiercest warrior races on earth, the Frontier came to be known as "The Grim" by generations of British soldiers. This book details not only the three Afghan wars but also the issues surrounding Chitral, Malakand and Tirah. Color illustrations and photographs offer a rare glimpse into life on the Frontier, illuminating Lord Curzon's remark, "No man who has read a page of Indian history will ever prophesy about the frontier."
Author : William L. Shea
Publisher : Univ of North Carolina Press
Page : 436 pages
File Size : 29,63 MB
Release : 1997-03-01
Category : History
ISBN : 9780807846698
The first definitive study of a Civil War battle in the Trans-Mississippi shows how the battle of Pea Ridge in northwestern Arkansas dramatically altered the balance of power and helped ensure Union victory
Author : Hugh Lewis Nevill
Publisher :
Page : 460 pages
File Size : 36,72 MB
Release : 1912
Category : India
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Author : H. L. Nevill
Publisher :
Page : 432 pages
File Size : 15,30 MB
Release : 2005
Category :
ISBN : 9781845741877
The single best one volume account of British campaigns against the tribes along India s North-West Frontier. It covers in detail 27 frontier campaigns from the Black Mountain Expedition of 1852, to the Mohmand Field Force in 1908. Included are such campaigns as the 1863 Ambela campaign, the 1866 Black Mountain expedition, Jowaki 1877-78, Zakha Kel 1878-79, Mahsud 1881, Black Mountain 1888, 1891 Miranzi Field Force, the Mahsud Campaign of 1884-85, the 1895 Chitral Relief Force, the 1897 Frontier Uprisings with the operations of The Tochi, Malakand, Buner, Tirah, Peshawar and Kurram Field Forces.In addition to a detailed operational narrative, there are numerous appendices, including a list of British and indian regiments, with what campaigns each unit served in. This work is very helpful to British medal collectors for its information on these many small campaigns.
Author : General Sir Andrew Skeen
Publisher :
Page : 148 pages
File Size : 12,38 MB
Release : 2021-06-28
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ISBN : 9781783319442
Author : Stephen M. Miller
Publisher : Cambridge University Press
Page : 337 pages
File Size : 22,55 MB
Release : 2021-06-17
Category : History
ISBN : 1108490123
Offers a revised and updated history of thirteen of the most significant British conflicts during the Victorian period.
Author : T. Moreman
Publisher : Springer
Page : 282 pages
File Size : 14,96 MB
Release : 1998-08-10
Category : History
ISBN : 023037462X
This comprehensive study is the first scholarly account explaining how the British and Indian armies adapted to the peculiar demands of fighting an irregular tribal opponent in the mountainous no-man's-land between India and Afghanistan. It does so by discussing how a tactical doctrine of frontier fighting was developed and 'passed on' to succeeding generations of soldiers. As this book conclusively demonstrates this form of colonial warfare always exerted a powerful influence on the organisation, equipment, training and ethos of the Army in India.
Author : Peter Duffell
Publisher : Pen and Sword
Page : 405 pages
File Size : 46,38 MB
Release : 2019-12-27
Category : History
ISBN : 1526730588
A British general’s memoir of serving with these famed Nepalese warriors: “An inspiring journey, delightfully related.” —Times Literary Supplement It is 1814 and the Bengal Army of the Honourable East India Company is at war with a marauding Nepal. It is here that the British first encounter the martial spirit of their indomitable foe—the Gurkha hill men from that mountainous independent land. Impressed by their fighting qualities and with the end of hostilities in sight, the Company begins to recruit them into their own ranks. Since then these lighthearted and gallant soldiers have successfully campaigned wherever the British Army has served—from the North West Frontier of India through two World Wars to the contemporary battlefields of the Falklands and Afghanistan’s Helmand Province, with well over one hundred battle honors to their name and at a cost of 20,000 casualties. Here, Peter Duffell separates fact and myth and recounts something of the history, character, and spirit of these loyal and dedicated soldiers—seen through the prism of his service and campaigning as a regular officer in the 2nd King Edward VII’s Own Gurkha Rifles, as the Brigade of Gurkhas Major General and as Regimental Colonel of the Royal Gurkha Rifles.
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Page : 1000 pages
File Size : 48,72 MB
Release : 1899
Category : Civil service
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