Chapter IX: Footnote 115

Now the 6th Jat Light Infantry.

Footnote 116:

For details of this march, see the narrative of Surgeon-General
Ker-Innes.

Footnote 117:

King of Islam.

Footnote 118:

The requirements of expeditionary carriage always weigh with especial
hardship on the Punjab; during the summer of 1897 the Deputy
Commissioners in that Province impressed about 100,000 animals and
25,000 owners, and of these numbers not one in five was actually
required and sent to the front.

Footnote 119:

For much of the following I am indebted to Captain A. K. Slessor’s
_Tirah Campaign_—being No. 5 of the “Derbyshire Campaign Series,”
printed for regimental circulation.

Footnote 120:

Quotation is here again made from Captain Slessor’s book.

Footnote 121:

This was afterwards found to be a mere goat-track, quite unsuited to
the movement of any large force—still less for its transport.

“Talai” is sometimes called “Tsalai.”

Footnote 122:

Now the 128th Pioneers.

Footnote 123:

Now the 39th King George’s Own Central India Horse.

Footnote 124:

Now the 127th L.I.

Footnote 125:

Now the 95th Russell’s Infantry.

Footnote 126:

See Map VII.

Footnote 127:

Not to be confused with a tribe of the same name in the Yusafzai
country.

Footnote 128:

See Map VII.

Footnote 129:

No longer in existence.

Footnote 130:

Disbanded in 1882.

Footnote 131:

4 mountain guns, 300 rifles Royal Irish Regiment, 500 1st Battalion
2nd Gurkhas, 500 1st Battalion 3rd Gurkhas, 500 2nd Punjab Infantry,
half a company Bombay Sappers and Miners, and departmental details.

Footnote 132:

See Map VII.

Footnote 133:

Above Sadda is Upper Kurram, between Sadda and Thal is Lower Kurram.

Footnote 134:

See Map VIII.

Footnote 135:

The Tochi Valley is sixty-three miles in length.

Footnote 136:

See Map VIII.

Footnote 137:

“The family history of Badshah Khan shows the extraordinary conditions
which obtain across the frontier, and how seldom men of any note die
in their beds. His grandfather, Jangi Khan, was a well-known raider,
and he met his death in 1860 at the hands of the 5th Punjab Cavalry
when leading a force of Mahsuds to attack Tank. His father, Umar Khan,
sacked Tank in 1879, but was killed in a blood-feud in the following
year. Badshah Khan was always a prominent figure in the Mahsud jirgahs
which came in to discuss matters with our political officers, and he
occasionally exerted his authority to keep the more lawless spirits of
the tribe in check, but he had to join in the general resistance when
punitive expeditions entered the country. His eldest son, Jehan Khan,
was killed during the blockade of 1901. He has left two other sons,
and these will doubtless maintain the reputation of the
family.”—_Pioneer Mail_, August 11th, 1911.

Footnote 138:

Now the 21st Kohat Mountain Battery.

Footnote 139:

Now the 22nd Derajat Mountain Battery.

Footnote 140:

Now the 15th Cavalry, at that time attached to the Punjab Frontier
Force.

Footnote 141:

Afterwards disbanded.

Footnote 142:

Now the 32nd Pioneers.

Footnote 143:

Now 5th Gurkhas.

Footnote 144:

_Kach_, a stretch of alluvial land subject to inundation, in a valley
or in the broad bed of a nullah.

Footnote 145:

Now the 33rd Punjabis.

Footnote 146:

Now the 23rd Cavalry.

Footnote 147:

Vol. III., pp. 86 and 89, 1851 edition.

Footnote 148:

_Proceedings of the Central Asian Society_, May 1911.

Footnote 149:

These figures are in many cases only approximate.

Footnote 150:

Includes garrisons of Chitral Fort and Mastuj, and parties under Capt.
Ross and Lieut. Edwardes.

Footnote 151:

Four to six small columns employed, strength averaging 1000.

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