3-077-924 - The Print Collector/Heritage Images

The Lushai Expedition: a corner of the Haka Road, near 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...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. A corner on this road, about one mile from the fort, with a Goorkha and transport mule, is the subject of the last of these Sketches'. From "Illustrated London News", 1890.