First Black Mountain Expedition

British-Indian military expedition to Torghar (1850)

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First Black Mountain Expedition

Date	February – November 1850
Location	Torghar, North-West Frontier Province, British India
Result	British victory

Belligerents

British Raj

Hassanzai tribesmen

Commanders and leaders

Lt. Col. Frederick Mackeson

Unknown

Strength

2,400 Soldiers
1,400 Native Militia
17 Cannons

Several thousand

Casualties and losses

5 Killed, 10 Wounded

Unknown

The First Black Mountain Expedition was a British-Indian military expedition to Torghar (Black Mountain), North-West Frontier Province against the Black Mountain tribes.

The war began when two British customs officers were killed by tribesmen. The First Black Mountain Expedition according to contemporary sources revealed the cause of the seemingly systematic nature of the revolt, as the British first discovered the Hindustani (Ahl-i Hadith) fanatics, who had caused the failure of the negotiations between the locals and the authorities. The campaign made it necessary for another expedition to subdue the colony of the Hindustanis in 1853.

References

Qeyamuddin Ahmad (2020). The Wahhabi Movement in India. Routledge. ISBN 9781000082067.
"Expeditions Against the Frontier Tribes of the Northwest Frontier Province". antiquesatoz.com. Retrieved 2020-11-27.
"Black Mountain Expedition 1852-53 - FIBIwiki". wiki.fibis.org. Retrieved 2020-11-27.
Jules Stewart (2007). The Savage Border: The Story of the North-West Frontier. the History Press. ISBN 9780752496078.

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