3-077-921 - The Print Collector/Heritage Images

The Lushai Expedition: main entrance of Fort Langleh, with quarter guard, 1890. The British Army in India. 'Lieutenant Leslie W. Shakespear of the 2nd Battalion Prince of Wales's Own Goorkhas, contributes the views of Fort Langleh and its neighbourhood which are now presented to our readers. One shows the main entrance to that fort, with the quarter guard; on the top of a hill ending the range, four or five miles distant, is seen the village of Lalrooma, a friendly Kowlong chief; beyond rise the hills of the Cachar border...Fort Langleh was completed in April last year, and was garrisoned, during the rainy season, by three British officers with 250 frontier police...The newly made road to Haka, cut through dense jungle and forest, and crossing those hill ranges, has been a laborious work, in which some assistance was procured from certain Shendu chiefs'. From "Illustrated London News", 1890.