3-077-923 - The Print Collector/Heritage Images

The Lushai Expedition: view eastward from Fort Langleh, 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... Looking eastward from Fort Langleh, the view presented in one of these Sketches first encounters the hill-peak of Malliam Pui, on which a stockade or blockhouse is being erected, similar to that seen on a knoll just outside the fort. The highest hill beyond in this view' is the Sangal Klang; to the extreme right are the spurs of the Teriat hills...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.