[PAKISTAN - ANTIQUE ENGRAVING].

The Black Mountain Expedition, Western Himalayas. [Caption title]
Ghazi Fanatics Charging The 18th Royal Irish At Kotkai.

London. The Graphic. December 8, 1888. Stock ID #218964

Double page engraving 30.5 x 50.7cms (image only); 40.5 x 59cms (sheet including caption and full margins), central fold (browned from original glue residue), but overall in good condition, text on the verso.

Vivid panorama published in "The Graphic" newspaper depicting conflict in the Black Mountain Expedition of October-November 1888 (also known as the Hazara Expedition) a military campaign by the British against Swati and Yousafzai tribes of Kala Dhaka and Battagram District (then known as the Black Mountains of Hazara and northern areas around it) in the Hazara region of what is now Pakistan. 400 tribal fighters and 2 British officers perished. The text on the verso whilst not specifically relating to this conflict records the British Viceroy Lord Lansdowne's address on a visit to Bengal:
"...some intelligent well-meaning men were desirous of taking into the unknown by the application to India of democratic methods of government and the adoption of Parliamentary systems which England herself only reached by slow degrees through the discipline of many centuries of discipline."

The engraving has full margins (not shown).

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