3-082-560 - The Print Collector/Heritage Images

Sketch map of the Chitral Campaign, 1895. 'The town of Chitral is situated about one hundred and thirty miles in a straight line due north of Peshawur; the country which is known by the same name extends from the town away to the north-east, and leads to the Baroghil Pass - 12,000 ft. above the sea...This pass is over the eastern end of the Hindu Kush, and may be said to be the point where the Himalayan range bends and runs westward through Afghanistan to the Heri Rud, on the frontier of Persia...The plan of operations from the Peshawur Valley is across the frontier by the Malakand and Shahkot passes into the Swat Valley, and through Panjkora to Dir, from which a pass leads over to the Chitral Valley...Lieutenants Fowler and Edwards, who were taken prisoners when Captain Ross was killed, are in the hands of Umra Khan, at Barwa, near Miankalai, in Bajaur, and this can only be reached after the Panjkora River has been passed. It is reported that the small guard or garrison of the British Residency at Chitral is hitherto safe...The column under Colonel Kelly, which is operating from Gilgit, is stopped at Ghizr, owing to the snowstorms in the pass leading over to the Chitral Valley at Mastuj. It was expected to reach Laspur about April 4'. From "Illustrated London News", 1895.1895.