Draft:Battle of Wana Camp

Battle of Wana Camp
	Part of Waziristan campaign 1894
Date	3 November 1894
Location	Wana, British India
Result	British Victory
Belligerents
British Empire United Kingdom; British Raj;	Mahsud tribesmen
Commanders and leaders
Brig. Gen. Turner; Lt. Col. William Meiklejohn; Lt. Percy Macaulay †	Mullah Powinda
Units involved
20th Punjab Infantry; 1st Gurkhas; 3rd Sikh Regiment; 1st Punjab Cavalry	tribesmen
Strength
2,500	2,000 tribesmen
Casualties and losses
23 killed, 43 wounded	150 killed

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Instructions · What links here · Battle of Wana Camp (talk: + · bio) · (log) · Copyvios report · reFill · Citation Bot · (Search: Google, Wikipedia) · Submitted 17 days ago by ThePaganUK (talk: D · +) · Last edited 0 seconds ago

The Battle of Wana Camp was a battle on 3 November 1894 between rebel Mahsud tribesmen and a British colonial frontier force stationed in Wana, on the northwestern frontier of the British Raj. The battle began a campaign of offensive actions by British forces in Waziristan to reduce the strength of Mahsud tribes within the area.^[2]^[3]

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[BritBat-1] "Waziristan, 1894". BritishBattles.com.

[BritishBattles-2] "Waziristan Campaign 1894". BritishBattles.com.

[smallwars-3] "Attack on Wana, Waziristan,1894". www.britainssmallwars.co.uk.

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