FIRST EDITION OF COLONEL HENRY DOVETON HUTCHINSON'S THE CAMPAIGN IN TIRAH 1897-1898: AN ACCOUNT OF THE EXPEDITION AGAINST THE ORAKZAIS AND AFRIDIS UNDER GENERAL SIR WILLIAM LOCKHART. The Tirah campaign, often referred to in contemporary British accounts as the Tirah expedition, was an Indian frontier campaign from September 1897 to April 1898. Tirah is a mountainous tract of country in what was formerly known as Federally Administered Tribal Areas of Pakistan, now Khyber Pakhtunkhwa province. The Tirah Field Force represented one of the last (but not 'the' last) Expeditions. It had discovered that the hit and run guerilla tactics of the tribesmen was being augmented by cheaper and better quality breech loading rifles being available. The British no longer had the undisputed advantage of weaponry and the terrain of the North West Frontier was conducive to helping the irregular tactics of the tribesmen.