Regional1897 – 1898 · 1 year

Tirah Campaign

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Tirah · Khyber · North-West Frontier

Estimated casualties

Casualty figures unrecorded for this conflict.

An 1897-98 British Indian frontier expedition against the Afridi and Orakzai Pashtun tribes of Tirah, mounted after the tribes seized the Khyber Pass. A force of nearly 35,000 under Sir William Lockhart fought a difficult mountain campaign.

Belligerents2

British India
Afridi and Orakzai tribes

ON THE MAPBritish India

Conflict graph

SUB-CONFLICTS · 4

Battle of Dargai1897
Battle of Landi Kotal1897
Battle of Malakand1897
Battle of Shabkadr1897

Sources

Wikipedia: Tirah campaign
Hutchinson, The Campaign in Tirah 1897-1898
Wikipedia — text reused under CC BY-SA 4.0

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