And 200 other Tibetans were killed at Red Idol Gorge, all on the British invasion route leading to Gyantse. The British were led by Colonel Francis Younghusband, a fabled Central Asia expert. The British invasion's toll of 1,000 to 1,600 dead Tibetans appears to be accurate. I do know that some Tibetans who cooperated with the British at Gyantse were murdered and their bodies mutilated, as traitors, while the seige was still in place. There wasn't any mass suicide such as jumping from the cliff.
All sides agree that the British Empire's attack traumatized Tibet.
Tibetan soldiers and militias fought heroically, but they were not able to check the enemy that were equipped with modern weapons. Looting, I mean to say foraging, went on for several days. All around, it was back luck on the people, for there was not much left when we had finished. It was nasty work at first, for our men are mostly criminals, the sweepings of the bazaars of India. Russia loudly protested the invasion from the very beginning.