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Chitral 1895 : an episode of the great game / Mark Simner.

Title: Chitral 1895 : an episode of the great game / Mark Simner.
Author: Simner, Mark
Publication: [Stroud] : Fonthill Media, 2017.

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192 pages, 32 unnumbered pages of plates; 25 cm

Summary

In 1895, a small Indian Army garrison, commanded by Surgeon-Major Sir George Scott Robertson and Captain Charles Vere Ferrers Townshend, was besieged by a joint Chitrali and Pathan army at the fort of Chitral. Despite the odds being heavily stacked against them, Robertson's beleaguered little garrison held out for forty-eight days until a relief expedition was able to fight its way through to the rescue. The siege and subsequent relief is a story of valour and sheer determination in the face of a stubborn adversary and extreme weather conditions, all played out on the often-mountainous terrain of the north-western border of British India. Robertson described events in Chitral as a 'minor siege', but the siege and subsequent relief should be viewed as an important episode in Britain's 'Great Game' with Russia, which would have serious consequences for the British several years later. Indeed, the retention of Chitral by the Indian Government would be a contributing factor to the mass uprisings along the North-West Frontier of India during late 1897. In reality, it was anything but a minor siege.

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History
Military history

Bibliography (note)

Includes bibliographical references and index.

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Contents

1 Chitral and the Great Game 19 -- 2 Death of a Mehtar 35 -- 3 The Defence of Reshun 51 -- 4 Disaster at Koragh 66 -- 5 The Siege of Chitral Begins 76 -- 6 The Attack on the Water Tower 93 -- 7 The Attack on the Gun Tower 109 -- 8 The Sortie to Destroy the Mine 125 -- 9 Kelly's March 138 -- 10 Low's Advance 152 -- 11 The Flight of Umra Khan 168.

ISBN

9781781556184
1781556180

OCLC

1001364467

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Harvard Library