First Black Mountain Expedition

First Black Mountain Expedition
Part of Mujahidin movement
DateFebruary – November 1852
Location
Kala Dhaka (present-day Torghar, Khyber Pakhtunkhwa, Pakistan)
Result British victory
Belligerents
British Raj Hindustani mujahideen
Black Mountain tribesmen
Commanders and leaders
Lt. Col. Frederick Mackeson Unknown
Strength
  • 2,400 Soldiers
  • 1,400 Native Militia
  • 17 Cannons
 Several thousand
Casualties and losses
5 Killed, 10 Wounded Unknown

The First Black Mountain Expedition was a 1852–1853 British Indian military expedition to Kala Dhaka (Black Mountain) in the erstwhile Punjab Province (in what is now Khyber Pakhtunkhwa, Pakistan), directed against the Black Mountain tribes and the Hindustani mujahideen associated with the Mujahidin movement of Syed Ahmed Barelvi (whom the British sources described as 'Hindustani fanatics').[1][2][3]

Expedition

The war began when two British customs officers were killed by tribesmen. The First Black Mountain Expedition according to contemporary sources revealed the cause of the seemingly systematic nature of the revolt, as the British first discovered the 'Hindustani fanatics', who had caused the failure of the negotiations between the locals and the authorities.[2][3]

See also

References

  1. ↑ Herold, Stephen. "Expeditions Against the Tribes of the Northwest Frontier Province from 1847 to 1908". Antiques AtoZ. Retrieved 17 November 2020.
  2. 1 2 Ahmad, Ishtiaq (2024). "Hindūstānī Mujāhidīn and the British from the Annexation of Punjab to the Frontier Uprising of 1897". Islamic Studies. 63 (4): 507–528. ISSN 0578-8072.
  3. 1 2 Ahmad, Qeyamuddin (2020). The Wahhabi movement in India (2nd revised ed.). London; New York: Routledge. p. 258. ISBN 978-1-000-08202-9.
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