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Paperback or Softback. Condizione: New. A Dictionary of the Pathan Tribes On the North-West Frontier of India. Book.

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Condizione: New. 2006 N&M Press reprint (original pub 1908).SB. 49pp with 3 maps.Published Price £22 This is an official account of the operations undertaken by the Bazar Valley Field Force in February/March 1908, a punitive expedition against the Zakka Khel Afridis. This was the fourth occasion on which it had been found necessary to send a punitive force into the valley during the past thirty years. The first chapter gives a short account of the events leading up to the expedition which was under the command of Major-General Sir James Willcocks who, a few weeks after the end of this expedition was taking another against the Mohmands. Chapters II and III contain the details of the operations including the composition of the Force and the results. Appendix I is Sir James Willcocks's despatch naming those who had distinguished themselves and listing all the casualties by name and unit with the nature of the wounds. There is a complete list of the staff showing appointments and the names of those filling them with their parent units. Another appendix contains the Political report of the expedition, followed by the Engineer report, expedition strength return, signals report and ammunition expenditure. Book.…

Condizione: New. 2006 N&M Press reprint (original pub 1908). SB. ii+ 60 +lviii pp with 2 maps.Published Price £22 This account of the Operations in the Mohmand country and in the Khaiber during April and May 1908 has been compiled in the Division of the Chief of Staff by Lt R.Dane, 21st Cavalry, Frontier Force. Chapter I contains a brief description of the Mohmand country while in Chapter II will be found a summary of events bringing up to date the history of our relations with the tribe as given in Volume I of this series. In the spring of 1908 the Mohmands carried out raids into British territory and attacked British troops. he decision was taken to mount a punitive expedition under the command of Sir James Willcocks who would command the Indian Corps in France in 1914. The operations undertaken by his force are described in detail and in Appendix I we have an extract from his despatches naming all those who had distinguished themselves and including a casualty return listing every casualty by name with the nature of the wound. The list of the British officers killed is headed by 'Major N.C.Maclachlan, 1st Seaforth Highlanders, gunshot wound, head, accidental.' There are extracts from the Engineer report. Medical report and Communications. There is also the strength return for the force as on 1st June 1908 and an ammunition expenditure return at Appendix VII of which the last two words of the heading should read "DURING OPERATIONS". Book. …

Hardcover. Condizione: Near Fine. Condizione sovraccoperta: Very Good. Reprint. iv, 241p, ills. On British military operations against the Abors of northeast India in 1911-1912.

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Paperback or Softback. Condizione: New. Frontier and Overseas Expeditions From India; Volume 1. Book.

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Condizione: New. 2006 N&M Press reprint (original pub 1907). SB. x + 468pp with 1 map.Published Price £22 This volume is made up in four parts, one part each for the three Burmese Wars and a fourth part dealing with operations against the Chins, Kachins ans Shans.It begins with an overview of Burma, its boundaries, its people, its climate and early history, and it also discusses causes of friction with the British government The first war was caused by the Burmese invasion of Arakan, whose people appealed to Britain for protection, and their invasion of Assam and Manipur. War was declared on 5th Marc h 1824 and an expedition mounted against Rangoon. Fighting continued to early 1826 when the Burmse army was defeated and peace signed on 24th February 1826. Deaths among the 3,586 British rank and file who first landed at Rangoon, amounted to 3,115 of whom just under 3,000 died of disease. The second Burmese War began on 2n April 1852 following indignities offered to our representatives in Burma and a couple of outrageous cases of extortion. Rangoon was taken in three days but fighting went on till February 1853. But this was followed by a month's operations against Dacoits which cost the British nearly 250 casualties of whom over a hundred died of cholera, The account of the tird Burmese War is preceded by a lengthy description of the political and commercial relation between British India and Upper Burma from 1853 to 1880. The King of Burma was displaying anti-British feelings, going so far as to conduct secret negotiations with the French about rights in Upper Burma. War with Britain began in November 1885 with an expedition against Mandalay and by the end of December the city had been taken and the King of Burma had surrendered. and Upper Burma annexed. There followed for the next few years a c onstant battle with bands of dacoits, finally eneded in 1890. The final part describes the country and people of the Chins, Kachins and Shans and the operations against them in the closing years of the nineteenth century. Book.…

Condizione: New. 2006 N&M Press reprint (original pub 1907). SB. xix + 591pp with 10 maps & illustrations.Published Price £22 This is the first of a series of six volumes containing records of expeditions against frontier tribes on all the frontiers of India, and of operations embarked upon overseas by the Government of India, involving troops of the Indian Army and British troops stationed in India at the relevant time.They incorporate the work compiled in 1873 by Col W.H.Paget (Revised in 1884 by Lieut A.H. Mason RE) describing expeditions against the North-West Frontier Tribes, authorised by the Punjab Government, as "a valuable guide to those who might have future dealings with these turbulent neighbours." It was with this warfare in mind that Kipling wrote those lines, addressed to The Young British Soldier: When you're wounded and left on Afghanistan's plains, An' the women come out to cut up what remains, Jest roll to your rifle an' blow out your brains, An' go to your Gawd like a soldier.Each volume deals with a distinct geographical division, laid out in the introduction of this volume which goes on to describe the terrain and the differing tribesman, their characteristics and their worth as fighting men. Operations described in this volume include the expedition to Gilgit, Hunza and Nagir in1891 led by Lt Col Durand in which three VCs were awarded to officers of the Indian Army; the siege of Chitral in in March/April 1895 which a small force of Indian troops under Brevet Major Townshend held out against a large force of tribesmen for six weeks when a relief force arrived (twenty-one years later he would surrender to the Turks at Kut); the Malakand and Mohmand Field Forces in 1897 (Churchill served in the former expedition and wrote a book about it); operations against the Black Mountain and Swati Valley tribes. Composition of Forces, casualties and names of personalities feature throughout the narrative. Book.…

Condizione: New. 2006 N&M Press reprint (original pub 1913). SB. iv + 241pp with 1 large map in colour & 14 illustrations.Published Price £22 The Abors were an Assam tribe inhabiting a tract of hill country on the north-east frontier of India, first visited by the English in 1826. Much of the area was terra incognita and problems arose connected with the Indo-Chinese and Indo-Tibetan borders. It was the murder, in 1911, by the Abors of the British Assistant Political officer, Mr Williamson, and his colleague Dr Gregorson and nearly all their party of followers while they were touring the Tibetan border area that was the immediate cause of the war. The punitive expeditionary force was composed of Indian Army troops (no British units) and operations lasted from October 1911 to April 1912. The narrative begins with an account of the political events leading up to the expedition, describes the terrain and the tribes and then goes on to relate the murder and discuss the plans for the expedition which was commanded by Major-General Sir H Bower, GOC Assam Brigade. There are an unusually high number of appendices (37), partly explained by the brief preface to the effect that because this was the first military expedition in the area "it has been considered desirable to attach to the history, as appendices, somewhat full extracts from departmental and other reports referring to details of organization, etc., peculiar to the country." But the account of the operations is well supported by more appendices giving a wealth of detail on all aspects of the Force involved, beginning with orders for the organization of the Abor Expeditionary Force, issued by the Chief of the General Staff. There are charts, tables, reports on engineering operations, medical history of the expedition, work of followers and much more beside. Book.…

Condizione: New. 2006 N&M Press reprint (original pub 1911). SB. x + 515pp with 19 maps & illustrations.Published Price £22 This is the most ambitious of the series, covering a number of major campaigns overseas. It begins with a summary of the expeditions of 1801 in response to the Napoleonic threat but the major studies are of the Indian contingent in Egypt of 1882 and the Sudan Campaign of 1885. Then Sir Robert Napier's expedition to Abyssinia and the capture of Magdala and subsequent operations with details of the composition of the force and the casualties. Operations in Somaliland over a period fourteen years describe the Isa.Expedition of 1890, against the Mulla in 1901-2 and again 1902-04 ending with his flight and escape. Appendices give details of command and staff and casualties. East Africa gives an account of the Mombasa Field Force and the operations against rebels led by Mubarak and his surrender, In Jubaland we read of the expedition against the Ogaden Somalis in 1898 followed by the punitive expedition of 1901. Operations in Uganda give the story of the expedition from India in November 1897 against mutinous Sudanese and in support of internal security. There was a contingent of British troops sent from India, a cavalry and an infantry brigade, artillery and miscellaneous units with many Indian followers. Book.…

Condizione: New. 2006 N&M Press reprint (original pub 1907). SB. xiv+ 249pp with 8 maps.Published Price £22 This interesting volume gives an account of operations against various countries bordering India, in each case beginning with a description of the country and its people, an outline of its history, the size of any army it may have had, first contacts wih the British and the reason for hostilities. We begin with. the war with Nepal, 1814-15. The Nepalese had been laying claim to certain areas on the borders withIndia , to which they had no right, and even sending in troops to occupy them. The British response was to put into the field a force of some 20.000 made up into four divisions each operating in a different area . The fortunes of each in the fighting are described and the comment is made that of the four divisions with which the campaign started the operations of three were total failures. But the war resulted in that friendship with Britain that began even before the it was over with the raising of the first Gurkha regiment (the Malaun Regiment) in 1815. The story of the war with Nepal is followed by an account of expeditions against Sikkim in 1814, 1860, and 1888. in which we also had problems with the Tibetans. Action against them was taken to secure borders. Bhutan comes next with an account of its relations with Nepal, China, with Tibet and with the British. Military action was taken against the Bhutanese on several occasions between 1772, when the East India Company went to the aid of Kuch Behar at the ruler's request when the Bhutanese invaded his country, and 1864. All these are conveniently described in one chapter including the composition of the forces sent out and the name of the commander. Assam, we are assured, cannot be described historically as one country, as it is made up of different tribes and nations and in this account each is taken in turn and this is the largest section of the book as military operations are described in each area from the Burma War of 1824 to the Manipur expedition of 1891.This section is as good a lesson in geography as it is in history. The final section deals with the Lushais whose country lies on the eastern frontier of India and is described as being a mass of hills averaging 3000-4000 feet. British assaults were usually in response to Lushai raids into India. Three punitive expeditions are described in some detail Brig-Gen : Brownlows's in 1871-72; Colonel Tregear's in 1888-89 and the Chin-Lushai expedition of 1889-90, again under the command of Colonel Tregear. Book.…

Condizione: New. 2006 N&M Press reprint (original pub 1910). SB. vii+ 466pp with 8 maps.Published Price £22 Baluchistan today lies in Pakistan with Afghanistan to the north, Iran to the west, India the east and the Arabian Sea on the south. The two main cities are Quetta up on the Afghan frontier, and Karachi the port on the Arabian sea. This volume, however, begins with an introduction to the Baluchistan of some three hundred years ago, describing its geography, its peoples (tribes) and early history including the acquisition by the British of a territory considerably larger than the British Isles. The narrative then takes us through the history of the country and it s relations with the British, mainly actions by hostile tribes and our reacting to them by sending punitive expeditions to deal with them. An example of one of these was the Zhob Valley Expedition of 1884 on which we sent a mixed force of artillery, cavalry and infantry amounting to some 5,000 men. The second half of the book is taken up with an account of the First Afghan War which ran from 1838 to 1842, largely, if not entirely the fault of the Governor General (the title later was changed to Viceroy) Lord Auckland who decided to replace the ruler of Afghanistan, Dost Mohammed with a puppet king. Shah Shuja, which led to a large scale British invasion of the country. The British met with disaster in which some 4000 soldiers and 12,000 followers perished, only one man escaping, Dr Brydon. There is a well-known painting by Lady Butler of Brydon arriving at the garrison of Jalalabad, an exhausted survivor. Book. …