The First Black Mountain Expedition was a 1852–1853 British Indian military expedition to Kala Dhaka (Black Mountain) in the erstwhile Punjab Province (in what is now Khyber Pakhtunkhwa, Pakistan), directed against the Black Mountain tribes and the Hindustani mujahideen associated with the Mujahidin movement of Syed Ahmed Barelvi (whom the British sources described as 'Hindustani fanatics').
Expedition
The war began when two British customs officers were killed by tribesmen. The First Black Mountain Expedition according to contemporary sources revealed the cause of the seemingly systematic nature of the revolt, as the British first discovered the 'Hindustani fanatics', who had caused the failure of the negotiations between the locals and the authorities.
See also Second Black Mountain Expedition Third Black Mountain Expedition or the Hazara Expedition of 1888
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