What the records say
- When
- 26 Jul 1897 – 2 Aug 1897
- Kind
- Siege
- Coordinates
- 34.50° N, 71.75° E
- Description
- 1897 siege of a British garrison by Afghan tribesmen
Siege of Malakand
1897 siege of a British garrison by Afghan tribesmen
The siege of Malakand was the 26 July – 2 August 1897 siege of the British garrison in the Malakand region of colonial British India's North West Frontier Province. The British faced a force of Pashtun tribesmen whose tribal lands had been bisected by the Durand Line, the 1,519 mile (2,445 km) border between Afghanistan and British India drawn up at the end of the Anglo-Afghan wars to help hold back what the British…
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- Wikipedia year pages (French), by Wikipedia contributorsWikipedia contributors · names it “les tribus pachtounes assiègent une garnison britannique dans la région du Malakand”Creative Commons Attribution-ShareAlike 4.0Source page