3-077-919 - The Print Collector/Heritage Images

The Chin Expedition: Fort White, headquarters of the Northern Column of the Chin Expedition, 1890. The British Army in India and Burma. 'The Northern Column - with Kalewa, on the Chindwin, and Kalymyo, on the Mitha, as its river bases - has its headquarters at Fort White. This force is under Colonel Skene, D.S.O., and is composed of the 10th and 38th Bengal Infantry, which hold the valley and the stockades on the road to Fort White...Our military correspondents, both with the troops at Demagiri and Fort Langleh, advancing through the Lushai highlands and forests to Haka, and with those at Pokoko, at Kalymyo, and at Fort White, on the Burmese side, have furnished Sketches of the country, and of the difficulties of transport, with other incidents of the campaign...We are indebted to Lieutenant W. Hussey Walsh, of the 1st Battalion of the Cheshire Regiment, with the Northern Column of the Chin Expedition, under command of Colonel Skene, for two Sketches. [One shows] the situation and interior arrangement of Fort White, surrounded by mountains 9000 ft. high, with the huts for the troops and the Commissariat stores, and with signalling posts on the hills'. From "Illustrated London News", 1890.