CHAPTER I PAGE THE CAUSES OF THE WAR 1 CHAPTER II CAPTAIN ROSS AND LIEUTENANT EDWARDES 30 CHAPTER III GENERAL LOW'S ADVANCE 71 CHAPTER IV ACTIONS AT THE MALAKAND AND PANJKORA 83 CHAPTER V THE RELIEF OF CHITRAL 115 CHAPTER VI THE DEFENCE OF CHITRAL 129 CHAPTER VII COLONEL KELLY'S MARCH 175 LIST OF ILLUSTRATIONS _To face page_ COLONEL KELLY AND HIS OFFICERS (_Frontispiece_) MAP OF CHITRAL EXPEDITION, 1895 x THE WESTMINSTER ABBEY OF CHITRAL 15 LIEUT. B. E. M. GURDON, D.S.O. 16 DIAGRAMMATIC SKETCH OF THE KORAGH DEFILE 34 THE LOWARAI PASS 66 THE LOWARAI PASS IN MAY 76 THE MALAKAND PASS 84 CONSTRUCTING A SUSPENSION BRIDGE OVER THE PANJKORA RIVER 110 DIR FORT 116 HEAD-QUARTER CAMP, DIR 124 SIR R. LOW AND STAFF ON THE JANBATAI PASS 128 CHITRAL FORT, FROM THE SOUTH 142 MAJOR TOWNSHEND, C.B. 144 LIEUT. H. K. HARLEY, D.S.O. 166 SKETCH OF SOUTH (GUN) TOWER, CHITRAL FORT 169 NATIVE LEVY 176 SEPOY 32ND PIONEERS 182 CAPTAIN J. MCD. BAIRD 226 COMPANY OF THE 14TH SIKHS, WHICH FORMED PART OF THE GARRISON OF CHITRAL DURING THE SIEGE 228 HOUSE OCCUPIED BY SHER AFZUL DURING THE SIEGE OF CHITRAL FORT 231 [Illustration: CHITRAL EXPEDITION 1895. (Map)] THE RELIEF OF CHITRAL CHAPTER I THE CAUSES OF THE WAR In the middle of March of the year 1895, people in England were suddenly made aware that grave trouble had arisen upon the northern frontier of India; that the representative of the British Government was besieged in the heart of a mountainous country, hundreds of miles from the nearest support; and that operations on a large scale were contemplated by the Government of India to effect his release, and restore British prestige. Some account of how this trouble arose is required, and of the causes which necessitated this campaign by which the honour of the British name was saved, and British officers were rescued from an untimely end.