3-082-559 - The Print Collector/Heritage Images

The Chitral Expedition: Plains of Yusufzai, showing Malakand Pass in the mountains, 1895. 'There has been an agent of the Indian Government at Gilgit for some years back, and that place is, as may be seen from the newspapers, also used as a base in the present campaign...The plan of operations from the Peshawur Valley is across the frontier by the Malakand and Shahkot passes into the Swat Valley, and from that through Panjkora to Dir, from which a pass leads over to the Chitral Valley...The view...will convey some idea of the wild mountainous character of the country in which the present campaign has to carry on its operations. The troops under Sir Robert Low have with hard fighting carried the Malakand and Shahkot passes, and have occupied the fords of the Swat River...The column under Colonel Kelly...is stopped at Ghizr, owing to the snowstorms in the pass leading over to the Chitral Valley...It was expected to reach Laspur about April 4. General Sir Michael A. Biddulph, K.C.B., who supplies two sketches of the Swat River and the Malakand Pass, is, we are proud to say, an old correspondent, who has communicated many sketches to The Illustrated London News. In the late Afghan War, and even so far back as the Crimean War, we were indebted to his pencil'. From "Illustrated London News", 1895.