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Title: The Story of the Malakand Field Force

Author: Sir Winston S. Churchill

Release Date: December, 2005 [EBook #9404]
Posting Date: July 27, 2009

Language: English

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THE STORY OF THE MALAKAND FIELD FORCE

AN EPISODE OF FRONTIER WAR

By Sir Winston S. Churchill

"They (Frontier Wars) are but the surf that marks the edge
and the advance of the wave of civilisation."

LORD SALISBURY, Guildhall, 1892

CONTENTS

Preface
Chapter I: The Theatre of War
Chapter II: The Malakand Camps
Chapter III: The Outbreak
Chapter IV: The Attack on the Malakand
Chapter V: The Relief of Chakdara
Chapter VI: The Defence of Chakdara
Chapter VII: The Gate of Swat
Chapter VIII: The Advance Against the Mohmands
Chapter IX: Reconnaissance
Chapter X: The March to Nawagai
Chapter XI: The Action of the Mamund Valley, 16th September
Chapter XII: At Inayat Kila
Chapter XIII: Nawagai
Chapter XIV: Back to the Mamund Valley
Chapter XV: The Work of the Cavalry
Chapter XVI: Submission
Chapter XVII: Military Observations
Chapter XVIII: The Riddle of the Frontier
Appendix

THIS BOOK
IS INSCRIBED TO
MAJOR-GENERAL SIR BINDON BLOOD, K.C.B.
UNDER WHOSE COMMAND THE OPERATIONS THEREIN
RECORDED WERE CARRIED OUT; BY WHOSE GENERALSHIP
THEY WERE BROUGHT TO A SUCCESSFUL CONCLUSION;
AND TO WHOSE KINDNESS THE AUTHOR IS INDEBTED
FOR THE MOST VALUABLE AND FASCINATING EXPERIENCE
OF HIS LIFE.

PREFACE

"According to the fair play of the world,
Let me have an audience."

"King John," Act v., Sc. 2.

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