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  • FRONTIER AND OVERSEAS EXPEDITIONS FROM INDIA
    Intelli Branch Amy Headquarters India
    This volume is made up in four parts, one part each for the three Burmese Wars and a fourth part dealing with operations against the Chins, Kachins ans Shans.It begins with an overview of Burma, its boundaries, its people, its climate and early history, and it also discusses causes of friction with the British government The first war was caused by the Burmese invasion of A...
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  • FRONTIER AND OVERSEAS EXPEDITIONS FROM INDIA
    Intelli Branch Amy Headquarters India
    This volume opens with a description of the Afridi tribe, tthe terrain in which they lived , their fighting qualities, character and customs, which included skill in stealing rifles (among other things). Troops on the Frontier ofen slept with a chain through the trigger guard attached to thei wrists, or slept on thei rifles. Ther term Afridi covers eight clans,and seven of them...
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  • FRONTIER AND OVERSEAS EXPEDITIONS FROM INDIA
    Intelli Branch Amy Headquarters India
    Baluchistan today lies in Pakistan with Afghanistan to the north, Iran to the west, India the east and the Arabian Sea on the south. The two main cities are Quetta up on the Afghan frontier, and Karachi the port on the Arabian sea. This volume, however, begins with an introduction to the Baluchistan of some three hundred years ago, describing its geography, its peoples (tribes...
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  • FRONTIER AND OVERSEAS EXPEDITIONS FROM INDIA
    Intelli Branch Amy Headquarters India
    This interesting volume gives an account of operations against various countries bordering India,, in each case beginning with a description of the country and its people, an outline of its history, the size of any army it may have had, first contacts wih the British and the reason for hostilities. We begin with. the war with Nepal, 1814-15.. The Nepalese had been laying claim ...
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  • FRONTIER AND OVERSEAS EXPEDITIONS FROM INDIA
    Intelli Branch Amy Headquarters India
    This is the most ambitious of the series, covering a number of major campaigns overseas. It begins with a summary of the expeditians of 1801 in response to the Napoleonic threat but the maor studies are of the Indian contingent in Egypt of 1882 and the Sudan Campaign of 1885. Then Sir Robert Napier’s expedition to Abyssinia and the ncapture of Magdala and subsequent operations...
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  • FRONTIER AND OVERSEAS EXPEDITIONS FROM INDIA
    Intelli Branch Amy Headquarters India
    This account of the Operations in the Mohmand country and in the Khaiber during April and May 1908 has been compiled in the Division of the Chief of Staff by Lt R.Dane, 21st Cavalry, Frontier Force. Chapter I contains a brief description of the Mohmand country while in Chapter II will be found a summary of events bringing up to date the history of our relations with the tribe a...
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  • FRONTIER AND OVERSEAS EXPEDITIONS FROM INDIA
    Intelli Branch Amy Headquarters India
    This is an official account of the operations undertaken by the Bazar Valley Field Force in February/March 1908, a punitive expedition against the Zakka Khel Afridis. This was the fourth occasion on which it had been found necessary to send a punitive force into the valley during the past thirty years. The first chapter gives a short account of the events leading up to the expe...
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  • FRONTIER AND OVERSEAS EXPEDITIONS FROM INDIA
    Intelli Branch Amy Headquarters India
    This is the first of a series of six volumes containing records of expeditions against frontier tribes on all the frontiers of India, and of operations embarked upon overseas by the Government of India, involving troops of the Indian Army and British troops stationed in India at the relevant time.They incorporate the work compiled in 1873 by Col W.H.Paget (Revised in 1884 by Li...
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  • FRONTIER AND OVERSEAS EXPEDITIONS FROM INDIA
    Intelli Branch Amy Headquarters India
    The Abors were an Assam tribe inhabiting a tract of hill country on the north-east frontier of India, first visited by the English in 1826. Much of the area was terra incognita and problems arose connected with the Indo-Chinese and Indo-Tibetan borders. It was the murder, in 1911, by the Abors of the British Assistant Political officer, Mr Williamson, and his colleague Dr Grego...
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