Tirah campaign

Tirah campaign

Though wounded, Sergeant George Findlater continues to play the pipes while the Highlanders storm Dargai Heights.
Date3 September 1897 – 4 April 1898 (7 months and 1 day)
Location
Tirah Valley, British India
Result British victory
Belligerents

United Kingdom British Empire

 Afridi
Orakzai
Chamkani
Commanders and leaders
United Kingdom William Lockhart
British Raj Pratap Singh		 Gul Badshah
Strength
34,882[1]
20,000 camp followers		 40,000–50,000[1]
Casualties and losses

1,150 British casualties[2]

Unknown Indians casualties		 Unknown casualties [3]

The Tirah campaign, often referred to in contemporary British accounts as the Tirah expedition, was an Indian frontier campaign from September 1897 to April 1898. Tirah is a mountainous tract of country in what was formerly known as Federally Administered Tribal Areas of Pakistan, now Khyber Pakhtunkhwa province.

  1. ^ a b Blunt 1911, p. 1006.
  2. ^
    • Miller, Stephen M. (2021). Queen Victoria's Wars: British Military Campaigns, 1857–1902. Cambridge University Press. ISBN 978-1-108-49012-2.
    • Hutchinson, H.D. (2008). The Campaign in Tirah 1897–1898. Lancer Publishers. ISBN 978-0-9815378-5-6.
  3. ^ "Archived copy". Khyber. Archived from the original on 22 August 2021. Retrieved 19 April 2022.{{cite web}}: CS1 maint: archived copy as title (link) CS1 maint: unfit URL (link)