Hunza Nagar Campaign

Hunza Nagar Campaign
Part of North West Frontier Campaigns
Date:	1 December 1891-11 January 1892
Location:	Hunza, NWF
Presidency:	Bengal
Co-ordinates:	36.254484°N 74.357742°E
Result:	Submission of tribes
Combatants
British & Indians	Hunza & Nagar tribesmen
Commanders
Col Algernon Durand	Safdar Ali Khan, Thum of Hunza
Strength
16 British officers about 1,000 fighting men
Casualties

The Hunza Nagar Campaign of 1891.

Field Force

• 5th Gurkhas (188 men)
• 20th Punjab Infantry (28 men)
• Bengal Sappers & Miners (7 men)
• 24th (Hazara) Mountain Battery (2 guns)
• Kashmir Imperial Service Infantry (661 Men)
• Spedding's Pathans (200 men)
• Punial Levies

External Links

Hunza, NWF Wikipedia
Hunza Nagar Campaign Wikipedia (accessed 4 January 2017)
North West Frontier Military History Wikipedia
NWF Expeditions www.antiquesatoz.com
Hunza Nagar Campaign Google Books
Lt Boisragon's VC Wikipedia John Manners Smith's VC Wikipedia (accessed 4 January 2017)
Capt Aylmer's VC Wikipedia (accessed 4 January 2017)

Historical books online

• Where Three Empires Meet: A Narrative of Recent Travel in Kashmir, Western Tibet, Gilgit, and the Adjoining Countries by Edward Frederick Knight 1893 Archive.org

The Hunza Nagar Expedition page 112 Reminiscences; the Wanderings of a Yachtsman and War Correspondent by E. F. Knight 1923. HathiTrust Digital Library. This book is also available Pahar-Mountains of Central Asia Digital Dataset. If the download button does not display, locate under Books/Indian Subcontinent

• "The Hunza Nagar Expedition", page 254, Making of a frontier: five years' experiences and adventures in Gilgit, Hunza, Nagar, Chitral & the eastern Hindu-Kush by Algernon Durand 1900 Archive.org
• "Hunza and Nagar" page 130 Campaigns on the North-West Frontier by Capt H.L.Nevill 1912 Archive.org