Word: highlandersâ
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Dates: during 1930-1930
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...inforcements continued to arrive in the Peshawar area from Lahore, including a battalion of Seaforth highlanders??? the old "Rosshire Buffs"?most feared of all British units by frontier tribesmen for having often and soundly whipped them in the past. The R. A. F. removed all white women from Peshawar, and then proceeded to demolish the villages of every tribe that had joined in the insurrection, allowing the occupants 24 hr. to take to the fields. To put the government of the frontier in the hands of the military, Viceroy Lord Irwin declared martial...
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