3-052-437 - The Print Collector/Heritage Images

The Afghan War: conflict with the Zaimukhts at Zawa, near the Kuram Valley, 1880. 'A. The enemy's position, 300 yards distant; B. Where Lieutenant Renny fell; C. Party turning the enemy's flank...[Scene from] the [British Army] expedition of Brigadier-General Tytler...against the Zaimukht tribes...Here, in a mountain pass, the precipitous sides of which were intersected with ravines and gorges...forming a natural stronghold of the most forbidding aspect, the hostile Zaimukhts and Alisherzais had taken their stand, collecting here their women and children, cattle, and stores of grain. Our Illustration, from a Sketch by a military correspondent, shows the manner in which this place was captured...Arriving at the bottom of the pass leading into Zawa, the infantry moved up in single file, under a heavy fire of the enemy and a shower of recks hurled from three or four thousand feet above...At this point Lieutenant and Adjutant Renny, of the 4th Punjaub Infantry, was mortally wounded while gallantly leading his men, and with him fell four men of his regiment...After the troops had been given a short rest parties were detailed to burn the villages...The punishment inflicted on the Zaimukhts and Orakzais has been most signal'. From "Illustrated London News", 1880.