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11th Bengal Lancers 24th Punjab Infantry 31st Punjab Infantry 35th Sikhs 38th Dogras advance Ambéla arrived attack Bajour Bedmanai Pass Bengal Infantry British Buddhist Buffs bullets Buner camels Captain casualties Chakdara Chitral Colonel Adams column commanded companies Crown 8vo Demy 8vo Edited enemy enemy's Field Force fighting fire flank frontier garrison Ghazis Guides Cavalry Guides Infantry guns H. C. BEECHING Hadda Hadda Mullah's Highland Light Infantry hills Hindustani fanatics Inayat Kila Jeffreys jezails jirga Khan of Nawagai Khar killed Landakai large numbers Lieut Lieutenant Malakand Mamund Valley Meiklejohn miles Mohmand Mountain Battery mules Mullah Nawagai night officers ordered owing Panjkora piquet position ravines Regiment of Bengal remainder retire return to camp rifles road Royal Artillery rush Rustam Salarzai Sappers Second Brigade shot side Sir Bindon Blood soon spur squadron Swat River Swat Valley Swatis Tangi transport tribes tribesmen troops Upper Swat Utman Khel village wounded
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