Second Black Mountain Expedition

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Second Black Mountain Expedition
Date1868
Location
Hazara
Result British Indian victory
Belligerents

British Empire

Hassanzai
Swati tribe
Pariari Sayyids
Tikariwals
Deshiwals
Chagharzais
Nandihar
Casualties and losses
Unknown

The Second Black Mountain Expedition was a punitive expedition by the British Army against the Black Mountain tribes in the North-West Frontier Province of British India (now in what today is Khyber Pakhtunkhwa, Pakistan).

At the instigation of the Khan of Agror of the Swati tribe, a newly built police station was burnt by a raid of The Black Mountain (Tor Ghar) Tribes, Akazais, trans-border Swati tribesmen such as the Pariari Sayyids etc., and the Chagharzais. This was not tolerated, and a punitive expedition was led against the Pariari Sayyids, Nandihar, Deshiwals, Tikariwals, Hasanzai, Akazais and Chagharzais.[1][2]

References[edit]

  1. ^ objectid=DS405.1.I34_V08_257.gif Black Mountain – Imperial Gazetteer of India, v. 8, p. 251
  2. ^ Hubert Digby Watson (1908). Gazetteer of the Hazara District, 1907. Chatto & Windus. p. 169.