Hunza-Nagar Expedition
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The Hunza-Nagar Expedition of 1891 was one of the numerous expeditions undertaken in the North-West Frontier of British India. The Hunza-Nagar Expedition was ostensibly due to the defiant attitude of the Hunza and Nagar chiefs towards the British agent at Gilgit. Colonel Algernon George Arnold Durand, commanded a force of approximately a thousand rifles and two guns.[1] The fort at Nilt was stormed, and after a fortnight's delay the cliffs beyond it were also carried by assault. Hunza and Nagar were occupied, the chief of Nagar was reinstated on making his submission, and the half-brother of the raja of Hunza was installed as chief in the place of his brother.
[edit] Further reading
- Charles Welsh (editor), Famous Battles of the Nineteenth Century, (1905), (Wessels).
- Algernon George Arnold Durand, The Making of a Frontier: Five Years' Experiences and Adventures in Gilgit, Hunza, Nagar, Chitral, and the Eastern Hindu-Kush, (2002), (Adamant Media Corporation).
[edit] References
- ^ Algernon George Arnold Durand, The Making of a Frontier: Five Years' Experiences and Adventures in Gilgit, Hunza, Nagar, Chitral, and the Eastern Hindu-Kush, (2002), (Adamant Media Corporation)
