Hazara Expedition of 1891

Hazara Expedition of 1891
Date 1st March 1891 – 29th May 1891 Location Hazara (modern-day Pakistan) Result British victory
Belligerents
British Empire British Raj

The Second Hazara Expedition of 1891 ^[1] , was a military campaign by the British against Swati and Yousafzai tribes of Kala Dhaka and Battagram District (then known as the Black Mountains of Hazara and northern areas around it) in the Hazara region of what is now Pakistan.

The failure of the tribes to honour the agreements that ended the 1888 campaign (the first Hazara Expeidition) led to a further two-month expedition by a Hazara Field Force in 1891. ^[2] General Roberts observed that

the Black Mountain tribes, [having been] quite unsubdued by the fruitless expedition of 1888, had given trouble almost immediately afterwards. [The second expedition] was completely successful in political results as in its military conduct. The columns were not withdrawn until the tribesmen had become convinced that they were powerless to sustain a hostile attitude towards us, and that it was in their interest, as it was our wish, that they should henceforth be on amicable terms with us. ^[3]

British and Indian Army forces who took part in this expedition received the India General Service Medal with the clasp of Hazara 1891 (as had been done similarly in the 1888 expedition). ^[4] The Royal Welch Fusiliers were one of the British regiments that took part in the expedition. ^[5]

Allan James Macnab was one of the soldiers who was awarded the clasp of Hazara for his role in the night attack on Ghazikot. ^[6]

External links

• Black Mountain Expedition 1891
• India General Service Medal 1854-95, with clasp, 'Hazara 1891', awarded to Havildar Biaz, Queen's Own Corps of Guides, Punjab Frontier Force

References

1. Roll of Honour - Sussex - Eastbourne - Royal Sussex Regiment Memorial
2. Joslin, Litherland and Simpkin. British Battles and Medals. p. 124. Published Spink, London. 1988.
3. Field Marshal Lord Roberts, Forty-one Years in India 1897, page 531.)
4. Joslin, Litherland and Simpkin. British Battles and Medals. p. 123. Published Spink, London. 1988.
5. The Royal Welch Fusiliers - National Army Museum
6. Plarr’s Lives of the Fellows