The BBC news website posted an interesting article today about a man who has come forth with letters and photographs from the 1897 siege of Malakand, a garrison in what is now Pakistan’s North West Frontier Province. In a siege against what the article calls the forefathers of today’s Taliban, the garrison’s commander, Ben Tottenham, kept up correspondence with his wife and family. The material also contains photographs of captured Pashtun tribesmen.

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