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William Henry Charles Groome
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Archibald Forbes, Arthur Griffiths and others.
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English: British troops storm the mines being dug under their fort. Lieutenant Harley, at the Head of Forty Sikhs and Sixty Kashmiris, Rushed the House Over the Mouth of the Mine. Part of the Chitral Expedition.
Date 1902
date QS:P571,+1902-00-00T00:00:00Z/9
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From page 201 of the 1895 British book Illustrated Battles of the Nineteenth Century, volume 2. Puublished 1902. Uploaded by the British Library to Flickr here. Cropped and rotated.

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