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BLACK MOUNTAIN

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Originally appearing in Volume V04, Page 24 of the 1911 Encyclopedia Britannica.
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BLACK See also:MOUNTAIN , a mountain range and See also:district on the See also:Hazara border of the See also:North-See also:West Frontier See also:Province of See also:India. It is inhabited by See also:Yusafzai Pathans. The Black Mountain itself has a See also:total length of 25 to 50 m., and an See also:average height of 8000ft. above the See also:sea. It rises from the See also:Indus See also:basin near the See also:village of Kiara, up to its See also:watershed by Bruddur; thence it runs north-west by north to the point on the See also:crest known as Chittabut. From Chittabut the range runs due north, finally descending by two large spurs to the Indus again. The tribes which inhabit the western See also:face of the Black Mountain are the Hassanzais (2300 fighting men), the Akazais ( 1165 fighting men) and the Chagarzais (4890 fighting men), all sub-sections of the Yusafzai Pathans. It was in this district that the See also:Hindostani Fanatics had theirstronghold, and they were responsible for much of the unrest on this See also:part of the border. The Black Mountain is chiefly notable for four See also:British expeditions: r. Under Lieut.-See also:Colonel F. Mackeson, in 1852-53, against the Hassanzais. The occasion was the See also:murder of two British customs See also:officers. A force of 3800 British. troops traversed their See also:country, destroying their villages and See also:grain, &c.

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Major-See also:General A. T. See also:Wilde, in 1868. The occasion was an attack on a British See also:police See also:post at Oghi in the Agror Valley by all three tribes. A force of 12,500 British'troops entered the country and the tribes made submission. 3. The First Hazara Expedition in 1888. The cause was the See also:constant raids made by the tribes on villages in British territory, culminating in an attack on a small British detachment, in which two See also:English officers were killed. A force of 12,500 British troops traversed the country of the tribes, and severely punished them. See also:Punishment was also inflicted on the Hindostani Fanatics of Palosi. 4.

The Second Hazara Expedition of 1891. The Black Mountain tribes fired on a force within British limits. A force of 9300 British troops traversed the country. The tribesmen made their submission and entered into an agreement with See also:

government to preserve the See also:peace of the border. The Black Mountain tribes took no part in the general frontier rising of 1897, and after the disappearance of the Hindostani Fanatics they sank into See also:comparative unimportance.

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