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Sir Charles Orr's Memoirs Volume 2


Chakdara Fort


This 1905 photograph shows the 1896 British built Chakdara Fort to guard the strategically important crossing points across the Swat River. It would quickly find a use in the 1897 Malakand Rising when it was besieged.


Charles Orr's Memoirs



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