Zaimukht Expedition

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Zaimukht Expedition
Part of Punitive Expeditions
Date: December 1878
Location: Kohat Border, NWF
Presidency: Bengal
Co-ordinates: approx 33.564085°N 70.502222°E
Result: Submission of tribes
Combatants
British & Indians Zaimukht Pashtun tribesmen
Commanders
Brig Gen J.A.Tytler VC CB
Strength
about 3,065
Casualties
4 officers & men

Field Force

I-8th Royal Artillery (4 guns)
No 1 Kohat Mountain Battery (2 guns)
2nd Batt 8th Regiment (41 men)
85th Regiment (733 men)
1st Bengal Cavalry (57 men)
13th Bengal Lancers (155 men)
18th Bengal Cavalry (55 men)
8th Company Sappers & Miners (57 men)
13th Native Infantry (323 men)
4th Punjab Infantry (557 men)
20th Punjab Infantry (399 men)
29th Punjab Infantry (568 men)


External Links

Wikipedia - North West Frontier Military History
NWF Expeditions

Recommended Reading

Campaigns of the North-West Frontier by Capt H.L.Nevill DSO 1916
Reprinted by The Naval & Military Press Ltd 2005
ISBN 1-845741-87-0

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