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For King and Another Country: Indian Soldiers on the Western Front, 1914–18 is a book about the Indian contributions to the British efforts in the First World War, written by Shrabani Basu and published in 2015.
In support of the British war effort, the Indian Army deployed expeditionary forces to the Western Front, East Africa, Gallipoli, Mesopotamia, Sinai and Palestine. India was thus vulnerable to hostile attention from Afghanistan. A Turco-German mission arrived in Kabul in October 1915 with obvious strategic purpose.
It began in western Texas and ended in a series of fights with the Comanche tribe on May 12, 1858, at a place called Antelope Hills by Little Robe Creek, a tributary of the Canadian River in what is now Oklahoma. The hills are also called the "South Canadians", as they surround the Canadian River.
33rd Texas Cavalry, Texas Army: Hamilton P. Bee: 1 KIA, 1 WIA, 1 DIA Loss [67] 1863 Skirmish at La Sal Vieja 2nd Texas Cavalry, Texas Army: 0 Loss [68] 1864 Battle of Laredo: 33rd Texas Cavalry, Texas Army: Santos Benavides: 0 Victory [69] 1865 Battle of Palmito Ranch: 2nd Texas Cavalry Regiment, Texas Army: John Salmon Ford: 6 WIA, 3 POW ...
The high number of officer casualties had an effect: British officers who understood the language, customs, and psychology of their men could not be quickly replaced; as well, the alien environment of the Western Front had an adverse effect on the soldiers. [3] Hew Fanshawe, from the 19th Hussars, commanded the 2nd Indian Cavalry Division in 1914.
A group of Warm Spring Apache scouts. Recruitment of Indian scouts was first authorized on July 28, 1866 by an act of Congress. "The President is authorized to enlist and employ in the Territories and Indian country a force of Indians not to exceed one thousand to act as scouts, who shall receive the pay and allowances of cavalry soldiers, and be discharged whenever the necessity for further ...
A group of soldiers from the Indian Corps who had been mentioned in dispatches during fighting on the Western Front. In 1914 Indian Expeditionary Force A was sent to reinforce the British Expeditionary Force (BEF) fighting in France. In France it formed the Indian Cavalry Corps and Indian Corps composed of 3rd (Lahore) and 7th (Meerut) Divisions
The Indian commandos placed an IED at a temporary post and killed 3 soldiers, 1 major and 2 soldiers, and injured 1 soldier of the 59 Baloch regiment. Pakistan Foreign office denied that Indians had crossed the LoC, and claimed that 3 soldiers had died and 1 injured in response to an IED blast caused by "non-state actors".