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Zaimukht Expedition

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[[Category:Punitive Expeditions|Zaimukht Expedition 1878]]
{{Battles_Infobox
|partof=[[:Category:Punitive Expeditions|Punitive Expeditions]]
|date=December 1878
|location=Kohat Border, NWF
|presidency=[[Bengal]]
|co-ordinates= [http://maps.google.co.uk/maps?ll=http://maps.google.co.uk/maps?ll=33.564085,70.502222&z=10&t=h&hl=en approx 33.564085°N 70.502222°E]
|result= Submission of tribes
|territory=
|combatant1=British & Indians
|combatant2=[http://www.1911encyclopedia.org/Zaimukht Zaimukht Pashtun tribesmen]
|commander1=[http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/John_Adam_Tytler Brig Gen J.A.Tytler VC CB]
|commander2=
|strength1=about 3,065
|strength2=
|casualties1= 4 officers & men
|casualties2=
}}

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


== External Links ==
[http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/North-West_Frontier_(military_history)#1878-1898 Wikipedia - North West Frontier Military History]<br>[http://www.antiquesatoz.com/stephenherold/nwfrontc.htm NWF Expeditions]

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

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