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Paperback or Softback. Condition: New. A Dictionary of the Pathan Tribes On the North-West Frontier of India. Book.

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Condition: New. 2005 N&M Press reprint (original pub 1884). SB. 91pp with numerous maps.Published Price £14.50 Just 650 copies originally printed. Incudes Lorient 1746; St Malo 1758; Belleisle 1761; Quiberon 1795; Ostend 1798; Helder 1799; Copenhagen 1807; Walcheren 1809. Book.

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Condition: New. 2004 N & M Press reprint (original 1885). SB. 313pp mapPublished Price £14.50 The 1885 siege of the Sudanese capital, Khartoum, and the heroic death of Gen. Charles Gordon when its defences were overrun by the forces of the Mahdi is one of the great epics of Victorian imperial history. This account was written by one of the Intelligence Officers with the expedition which Gladstone's government belatedly sent down the Nile in an abortive bid to save Gordon. Wilson, although a personal friend of Gordon, is clear that the Mahdi was so determined to take Khartourm that the presence of the advance guard of the relieving force, - a paltry twenty men in two steamers - would have made no difference to Gordon's fate even if it had arrived a week earlier. With ten appendices and an end paper map. Book.…

Condition: New. 2006 N&M Press reprint (original pub 1908).SB. 49pp with 3 maps.Published Price £22 This is an official account of the operations undertaken by the Bazar Valley Field Force in February/March 1908, a punitive expedition against the Zakka Khel Afridis. This was the fourth occasion on which it had been found necessary to send a punitive force into the valley during the past thirty years. The first chapter gives a short account of the events leading up to the expedition which was under the command of Major-General Sir James Willcocks who, a few weeks after the end of this expedition was taking another against the Mohmands. Chapters II and III contain the details of the operations including the composition of the Force and the results. Appendix I is Sir James Willcocks's despatch naming those who had distinguished themselves and listing all the casualties by name and unit with the nature of the wounds. There is a complete list of the staff showing appointments and the names of those filling them with their parent units. Another appendix contains the Political report of the expedition, followed by the Engineer report, expedition strength return, signals report and ammunition expenditure. Book.…

Condition: New. 2006 N&M Press reprint (original pub 1908). SB. ii+ 60 +lviii pp with 2 maps.Published Price £22 This account of the Operations in the Mohmand country and in the Khaiber during April and May 1908 has been compiled in the Division of the Chief of Staff by Lt R.Dane, 21st Cavalry, Frontier Force. Chapter I contains a brief description of the Mohmand country while in Chapter II will be found a summary of events bringing up to date the history of our relations with the tribe as given in Volume I of this series. In the spring of 1908 the Mohmands carried out raids into British territory and attacked British troops. he decision was taken to mount a punitive expedition under the command of Sir James Willcocks who would command the Indian Corps in France in 1914. The operations undertaken by his force are described in detail and in Appendix I we have an extract from his despatches naming all those who had distinguished themselves and including a casualty return listing every casualty by name with the nature of the wound. The list of the British officers killed is headed by 'Major N.C.Maclachlan, 1st Seaforth Highlanders, gunshot wound, head, accidental.' There are extracts from the Engineer report. Medical report and Communications. There is also the strength return for the force as on 1st June 1908 and an ammunition expenditure return at Appendix VII of which the last two words of the heading should read "DURING OPERATIONS". Book. …