Mahsud Waziri blockade

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| partof = Instability on the North-West Frontier

| image = Sir Charles Egerton.jpg

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| caption = Charles Egerton, commander of the British forces

| date = 1 December 1900 – 10 March 1902
({{Age in months, weeks and days|month1=12|day1=1|year1=1900|month2=03|day2=10|year2=1902}})

| place = British Raj

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| result = British victory

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| commander1 = {{flagicon|British Empire}} Charles Egerton

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• 13 infantry battalions
• 1st Sikh Infantry
• 3rd Sikh Infantry
• 4th Sikh Infantry
• 2nd Punjab Infantry
• 4th Punjab Infantry
• 5th Punjab Infantry
• 22nd Punjab Infantry

• 1st Punjab Cavalry
• 3rd Punjab Cavalry
• 5th Punjab Cavalry
• Sappers and Miners
• 1 mountain battery
• 2 pioneer battalions
• North Waziristan militia
• South Waziristan militia

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| casualties1 = 32 killed, 114 wounded{{Cite book|url=https://archive.org/details/in.ernet.dli.2015.96937|title=Frontier And Overseas Expeditions From India Vol. 2|date=1907|pages=[https://archive.org/details/in.ernet.dli.2015.96937/page/n453 445]}}

| casualties2 = 126 killed, 250 wounded

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The Mahsud Waziri blockade{{Cite web|url=https://www.gutenberg.org/files/49986/49986-h/49986-h.htm|title=The Project Gutenberg eBook of War Medals And Their History, by W. Augustus Steward.|website=www.gutenberg.org|page=259|access-date=2019-12-08}} was a British campaign against the Mahsud in the British Raj. It began with a passive blockade on 1 December 1900.{{Cite web|url=https://hansard.parliament.uk/commons/1909-05-27/debates/278fb3ca-6f82-4371-a218-604b245eb7d3/IndiaMedal(OperationsInMahsudWaziriCountry)|title=India Medal (Operations In Mahsud Waziri Country) - Hansard|website=hansard.parliament.uk|access-date=2019-12-08}} The British forces were commanded by Major General Charles Egerton.{{Cite book|url=https://books.google.com/books?id=-WRlAQAAQBAJ|title=A Concise History of Afghanistan in 25 Volumes|last=Alikuzai|first=Hamid Wahed|date=2013|publisher=Trafford Publishing|isbn=978-1-4907-1446-2|pages=310|language=en}} The "most intense" period of fighting began on 23 November 1901.{{Cite book|url=https://books.google.com/books?id=je2Jz_1c21sC|title=Imperial Vancouver Island - Who Was Who, 1850 - 1950|last=Bosher|first=J.|date=April 2010|isbn=9781450059633|page=664}} Mobile columns concentrated at Datta Khel, Jandola, Sarwakai and Wana raided Mahsud territory every several weeks, seizing lifestock, taking Mahsud members captive and inflicting heavy casualties. The Mahsud finally surrendered on 10 March 1902.