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[[Category:Battles|Thanishpa, Battle of]]
[[Category:Zhob Valley Expedition 1890-91|Thanishpa, Battle of]]
"== External Links ==[http://en.wikipedia.....Zhob Valley expedition of October & November 1890 under SirGeorge White org/wiki/North-West_Frontier_(later C-Inmilitary_history)#1878-C in India). The aim of the expedition was tosurvey some of the mountainous terrain in Baluchistan on the 1898 North WestFrontier as well as to test, and demonstrate to the local tribespeople, theendurance and enterprise of the troops in some potentially difficult andMilitary History] Wikipedia<br>hostile terrain and generally to make the British presence felt[http://www. They metwith very little opposition and suffered minimum losses in what amounted toa largely 'explorative rather than militant' expeditionoxforddnb. (com/index/101036860/ Sir George Geoge White] Oxford Dictionary of National Biography<br>in his report [http://books.google.com/books?id=HvE_Pa_ZlfsC&pg=PA361&lpg=PA361&dq=Khiddarzai&source=web&ots=8BA26phv_y&sig=Ej1WAbAfPBY60bGdBQ7alpDONXo&hl=en&sa=X&oi=book_result&resnum=4&ct=result Reference to the Indian Government.)Zhob Valley Expedition] Google Books
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 ==[httpCategory://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 Battles|Thanishpa, Battle of National Biography - Sir Geoge White]<br>[http://books.google.com/books?id=HvE_Pa_ZlfsC&pg=PA361&lpg=PA361&dq=Khiddarzai&source=web&ots=8BA26phv_y&sig=Ej1WAbAfPBY60bGdBQ7alpDONXo&hl=en&sa=X&oi=book_result&resnum=4&ct=result Google Books - Reference to Zhob Valley Expedition]
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|partof=[[Zhob Valley Expedition 1890-91]]
|date=October-November 1890
|location= [http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Zhob Zhob_District Zhob Valley], NWF]|presidency=[[Bengal (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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'''This event was part of the [[Zhob Valley Expedition 1890-91]]'''
