The '''North-West Frontier''' of British_India was fought over almost continuously from the British annexation of the Punjab, until the British left India in 1947. The military history of the region has been a succession of uprisings by the native Pashtun (or ''Pathan'' as the British called them) tribes, each suppressed with more or less blood spilled, punctuated by major wars against Afghanistan. Many British officers who went on to distinguished command in World_War_I and World_War_II learnt their soldiering on the North-West Frontier.
==Chronology==
===Before 1849===
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*'''First_Afghan_War''' (1838-1842)
===1849-1858===
In the period following the Annexation_of_the_Punjab in 1849 until the Indian_Mutiny in 1857, several expeditions were undertaken against almost every tribe along the whole of the North-West Frontier.
*Operations_against_the_Baizai (1849)
*Operations_in_the_Kohat_Pass (1850)
*Mohmand_Expeditions (1851-2)
*Ranizai_Expedition (1852)
*First_Black_Mountain_Expedition (1852)
*Shirani_Expedition (1853)
*Afridi_Expedition (1853)
*Aka_Khel_Expedition (1854)
*Operations_against_the_Orakzais (1855)
*Miranzai_Valley_Expeditions (1855-6)
*Bozdar_Expedition (1857)
*Expedition_against_the_Hindustani_Fanatics (1857-8)
*'''Sepoy_Rebellion''' (1857-8) (Indian Mutiny)
===1859-1878===
*Kabul_Khel_Expedition (1859)
*Mahsud_Expedition (1860)
*Umbeyla_Campaign (1863)
*Operations_at_Shabkadar (1863-4)
*Second_Black_Mountain_Expedition (1868)
*Bazotee_Expedition (1868)
*Operations_in_the_Tochi_Valley (1872)
*Jowaki_Expedition (1877-8)
*Operations_against_the_Utman_Khel (1878)
===1878-1898===
*'''Second_Afghan_War''' (1878-1880)
*Zakka_Khel_Expeditions (1878-9)
*Operations_against_the_Mohmands (1878-80)
*Operations_against_the_Zaimukht (1878-9)
*Operations_against_the_Marris (1880)
*Mahsud-Waziri_Expedition (1881)
*Expedition_to_the_Takht-i-Suliman (1883)
*Third_Black_Mountain_Expedition (1888)
*Operations_in_the_Zhob_Valley (1890-1)
*Fourth_Black_Mountain_Expedition (1891)
*Miranzai_Expeditions (1891)
*Hunza-Nagar_Expedition (1891)
*Mahsud_Expedition (1894-5)
*Chitral_Campaign (1895)
*Tochi_Valley_Expedition (1897)
*Operations_of_the_Malakand_Field_Force (1897)
*Operations_of_the_Buner_Field_Force (1897)
*Tirah_Campaign (1897)
===1898-1914===
*Mahsud_Blockade (1900-2)
*Zakha_Khel_Expedition (1908)
*Mohmand_Expedition (1908)
===1914-1918 (First World War)===
===1919-1939 (Between the Wars)===
*Amritsar_Massacre (1919)
*'''Third_Afghan_War''' (1919)
*Operations_in_Waziristan (1919-20)
*Operations_against_the_Afridis (1930-1)
*Operations_against_the_Mohmands (1933)
*Operations_in_Waziristan (1936-9)
===1939-1947 (Second World War to Independence)===
==References==
*Barthorp, M., ''The North-West Frontier'', 1982, New Orchard
*Nevill, Capt. H.L., ''Campaigns on the North-West Frontier'', 1912, reprinted by Battery Press, 1999
Category:British_Army
Category:Military_of_British_India