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Immediate dispatch from Somerset. Book in excellent unread/unused condition. See images. Fantastic book.

About the book >.>.> In 1895 a small garrison of the Indian Army commanded by Surgeon-Major Sir George Scott Robertson and Captain Charles Vere Ferrers Townshend was besieged by a joint Chitrali and Pathan army at the fort of Chitral. Despite the odds being heavily stacked against them Robertson’s beleaguered garrison held out for forty- eight days until a relief expedition was able to fight its way through to the rescue. Robertson described events in Chitral as a ‘minor siege’ but these events should be viewed as an important episode in Britain’s ‘Great Game’ with Russia which would have serious consequences for the British several years later. Indeed the retention of Chitral by the Indian Government would be a contributing factor to the mass uprisings along the North-West Frontier of India during late 1897. In reality it as anything but a minor siege. (LL)