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[[Category:Battles|Thanishpa, Battle of]]
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|partof=North West Frontier Punitive Expeditions
|date=October-November 1890
|location= [http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Zhob Zhob Valley, NWF]
|presidency=[[Bengal]]
|co-ordinates= [http://maps.google.co.uk/maps?ll=31.359887,69.463399&z=11&t=h&hl=en approx 31.359887°N 69.463399°E]
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|combatant1=British: Zhob Valley Field Force
|combatant2=Khiddarzai tribesmen
|commander1=[http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Sir_George_White Maj Gen Sir George White]
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"......Zhob Valley expedition of October & November 1890 under Sir
George White (later C-In-C in India). The aim of the expedition was to
survey some of the mountainous terrain in Baluchistan on the North West
Frontier as well as to test, and demonstrate to the local tribespeople, the
endurance and enterprise of the troops in some potentially difficult and
hostile terrain and generally to make the British presence felt. They met
with very little opposition and suffered minimum losses in what amounted to
a largely 'explorative rather than militant' expedition. (Sir George White
in his report to the Indian Government.)
Troops making up the Field force were -
No.7 Mountain Battery, Royal Artillery<br>
2nd Battalion King's Own Yorkshire Light Infantry (B,C,E,& F,Companies)<br>
18th Bengal Lancers<br>
No.1 Company, Bombay Sappers & Miners<br>
2nd & 3rd Battalions of Beluchis (2 sections of the 29th & 30th Bombay Infantry)<br>
2 sections of the British Field Hospital<br>
2 sections of the 24th British Field Hospital<br>
3 sections of the 25th Native Field Hospitals<br>
(Men in the Native Infantry battalions totalled 550)"<br>[http://archiver.rootsweb.ancestry.com/th/read/INDIA/2001-05/0990361784 Rootsweb posting]
== External Links ==
[http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/North-West_Frontier_(military_history)#1878-1898 Wikipedia - North West Frontier Military History]<br>[http://www.oxforddnb.com/index/101036860/ Oxford Dictionary of National Biography - Sir Geoge White]
