e/23rd Peshawar Mountain Battery (Frontier Force)

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has glosseng: The 23rd Peshawar Mountain Battery (Frontier Force) was an artillery battery of the British Indian Army. They were raised in Peshawar in 1853, and soon thereafter took part in numerous Frontier campaigns, the most important of which was the Umbeyla Campaign of 1863. From December 1871 to February 1872, the Battery took part in the Looshai Campaign. During the Second Afghan War, the 23rd saw service in the Battle of Kandahar. In the World War I, the 23rd was one of the two original mountain batteries to land in the Mesopotamia Campaign in late 1914, where the battery remained with the 6th (Poona) Division until returning to India in 1917. They continued to see service in the Third Afghan War with the 16th Indian Division, the Waziristan campaign 1919–1920 and the Waziristan campaign 1936–1939.
lexicalizationeng: 23rd Peshawar Mountain Battery
lexicalizationeng: 23rd
instance of(noun) a unit that is part of some military service; "he sent Caesar a force of six thousand men"
military unit, force, military force, military group

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