The remarkable incident in 1895 in a mountainous region beyond the North West Frontier of British India that captured the imagination of contemporary Victorian Britain.
The Chitral Relief Force comprised some 15,000 British and Indian troops, some 9,000 civilian followers and 30,000 transport animals, mules and camels.
Colonel Kelly’s relief force from Gilgit comprised some 500 men of his own regiment, the 32nd Punjab Pioneers, and levies from Hunza and Nagar with a 2 gun section from 1st Kashmir Mountain Gun Battery.
Umra Khan is thought to have invaded Chitral in January 1895 with 4-5,000 men, a number which increased over the following months until the Chitral Relief Force began operations in the Malakand Pass when many of Umra Khan’s men returned to oppose the invasion.
A wide range of tribes opposed General Low’s Chitral Relief Force so that the number of tribesmen taking part in the initial fighting was around 20,000 (defending the Morah, Shakot and Malakand Passes). This number decreased after the Malakand Pass was forced and the British took active steps to reassure the tribes that the aim of the force was to relieve Chitral and not to invade their territory. The return of the Khan of Dir assisted in this process. The overthrow of Umra Khan was a not unwelcome outcome for many of the tribes who felt threatened by Umra Khan’s expansion of his dominion during the 1880s and 1890s.
The number of besiegers of Chitral Fort was not capable of being computed and varied widely during the course of the siege. There were probably at any one time around 2,000 to 5,000 Chitralis, Jandolis, Afghans, Pathans and members of Umra Khan’s army conducting the siege. Many of these men went up the Chitral Valley to attack Edwardes and Fowler’s party and Ross’s Sikhs and later to oppose the advance of Colonel Kelly’s Gilgit Relief Force and then returned.
Winner in the Siege of Chitral: The British, Indian and Kashmiri forces.
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The Chitral Relief Force comprised some 15,000 British and Indian troops, some 9,000 civilian followers and 30,000 transport animals, mules and camels.
Colonel Kelly’s relief force from Gilgit comprised some 500 men of his own regiment, the 32nd Punjab Pioneers, and levies from Hunza and Nagar with a 2 gun section from 1st Kashmir Mountain Gun Battery.
Umra Khan is thought to have invaded Chitral in January 1895 with 4-5,000 men, a number which increased over the following months until the Chitral Relief Force began operations in the Malakand Pass when many of Umra Khan’s men returned to oppose the invasion.
A wide range of tribes opposed General Low’s Chitral Relief Force so that the number of tribesmen taking part in the initial fighting was around 20,000 (defending the Morah, Shakot and Malakand Passes). This number decreased after the Malakand Pass was forced and the British took active steps to reassure the tribes that the aim of the force was to relieve Chitral and not to invade their territory. The return of the Khan of Dir assisted in this process. The overthrow of Umra Khan was a not unwelcome outcome for many of the tribes who felt threatened by Umra Khan’s expansion of his dominion during the 1880s and 1890s.
The number of besiegers of Chitral Fort was not capable of being computed and varied widely during the course of the siege. There were probably at any one time around 2,000 to 5,000 Chitralis, Jandolis, Afghans, Pathans and members of Umra Khan’s army conducting the siege. Many of these men went up the Chitral Valley to attack Edwardes and Fowler’s party and Ross’s Sikhs and later to oppose the advance of Colonel Kelly’s Gilgit Relief Force and then returned.
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