From the Black Mountain to Waziristan: Being an account of the border countries and the more turbulent of the tribes controlled by the north-west frontier province, and of our military relations with them in the pastWylly, H. C. (Harold Carmichael)
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From the Black Mountain to Waziristan: Being an account of the border countries and the more turbulent of the tribes controlled by the north-west frontier province, and of our military relations with them in the past
One squadron 10th Bengal Lancers.
11th Bengal Lancers.
Guides Cavalry.
No. 1 M.B.R.A.
No. 7 M.B.R.A.
No. 8 Bengal Mountain Battery.
22nd Punjab Infantry.
Two companies 21st Punjab Infantry.
No. 4 Company Bengal Sappers and Miners.
No. 5 Company Madras Sappers and Miners.
THIRD (RESERVE) BRIGADE.
Brigadier-General J. H. Wodehouse, C.B., C.M.G.
1st Battalion Royal West Surrey Regiment.
2nd Battalion Highland Light Infantry.
6 companies 21st Punjab Infantry.
39th Garhwal Rifles.
No. 10 F.B.R.A.
No. 3 Company Bombay Sappers and Miners.
[Sidenote: Extent of the Rising]
By this time some idea could be formed of the extent of the rising and
how far the neighbouring tribes were infected by the spirit of unrest
which had been aroused. It was known that a division of the Bunerwals,
the Utman Khels, the inhabitants of Lower Swat, and certain numbers of
Upper Swatis had taken part in the attacks upon the Malakand position;
not to mention the Dusha Khels, certain divisions of the Khwazozais, and
other sub-divisions, whose names would only be worth repeating as
showing how general was the rising among the local clans. But the tribes
further north did not seem to have been infected with any excitement or
restlessness; communication between Gilgit and Chitral was still open.
The Indus-Kohistan, the Mohmand country, the Khyber, Kohat and Kurram,
all then appeared to be undisturbed; the Nawab of Dir reported that the
Bajauris had remained tranquil, as had also the tribes on the Peshawar
border. The only disquieting frontier news to hand at this time was to
the effect that a number of mullahs, with a following of fanatical
tribesmen, had left Ningrahar and the neighbourhood of Jalalabad to join
either the Hadda Mullah or the Mad Fakir. The bulk of the attacking
force had been furnished by the men of Lower Swat, hitherto, and with
some reason, despised as fighting men. Thus the Khan of Aladand, whose
conduct had been exemplary since the Chitral Campaign, whose people were
largely employed as levies, and who himself drew a subsidy from
Government, was among those killed in one of the attacks. Thana lost
nearly all its young men, and men of other villages, who for the last
two years had regularly furnished supplies, turned out for this “Holy
War” in obedience to the exhortations of the Mad Fakir.
The concentration of the troops composing the Malakand Field Force was
completed on the 8th August; and already on the next day and on the 12th
certain Ranizai and Khwazozai jirgahs came in to sue for peace, their
submission being accepted on payment of heavy fines, surrender of arms,
and promise of future good behaviour and non-molestation of the troops.
[Sidenote: Action at Landakai]
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