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The Relief of Chitral
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The Chitral Campaign
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The Chitral Campaign: A Narrative of Events in Chitral, Swat and Bajour (1895)
This scarce antiquarian book is a facsimile reprint of the original. Due to its age, it may contain imperfections such as marks, notations, marginalia and flawed pages. Because we believe this work is culturally important, we have made it available as part of our commitment for protecting, preserving, and promoting the world's literature in affordable, high quality, modern editions that are true to the original work.
Chitral the Story of a Minor Siege
Chitral is a remote but strategically placed valley 250 miles long, high in the Hindu Kush Mountains. It had been ruled for many years by Mehtar Aman-ul-Mulk, a man with many wives and children until Aman-ul-Mulk died suddenly on 30 August 1892 at age 71. Thirteen of his many sons were considered eligible to claim the right to rule. His sons started killing each other and four of his sons briefly held power before being killed. In 1895, in the middle of this turmoil, a British military delegation arrived in Chitral headed by Surgeon-Major George Scott Robertson. Robertson had been appointed as political agent by the British as a result of his previous visit to Chitral in 1893 and to adjoinin...
Chitrál
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Chitral 1895
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With Kelly to Chitral
Sir William George Laurence Beynon pens the war memoir "With Kelly to Chitral" as an account of the daily life of British officers and Indian troops on a frontier expedition. Sir Laurence served as an Intelligence Branch Officer in the British Indian Empire during a tumultuous time particularly in the state of Chitral. When news came of the murder of Nizam-ul-mulk, Mehter of Chitral, a loyal ally, British and Indian troops were dispatched to the Gilgit district under the command of Colonel Kelly to assess the situation. Sir Laurence was one of them and shares his account of the expedition.
