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
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)