The 1842 retreat from Kabul was the retreat of the British and East India Company forces from Kabul during the First Anglo-Afghan War. An uprising in...
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William Brydon (category Wikipedia articles needing page number citations from January 2024)
accompanying civilians, to reach safety in Jalalabad at the end of the 1842 retreat from Kabul. Brydon was born in London, second son and second of eight children...
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The Kabul Expedition was a punitive campaign undertaken by the British against the Afghans following the disastrous retreat from Kabul. Two British and...
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John Shelton (British Army officer) (category Short description is different from Wikidata)
only a small number of British soldiers to survive the disastrous 1842 retreat from Kabul, in which a British army column of 4,500 men and 12,000 civilians...
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of the road follow the route of the British Army's disastrous 1842 retreat from Kabul.[citation needed] Highway 1 (Afghanistan) Application of Road Numbering...
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Remnants of an Army (category Short description is different from Wikidata)
survivor of the approximately 16,000 soldiers and camp followers from the 1842 retreat from Kabul in the First Anglo-Afghan War, and is shown toiling the last...
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Afghan Church (category Use dmy dates from September 2018)
First Afghan War and the disastrous 1842 retreat from Kabul. Memorials at the rear of the nave also record casualties from the Second Anglo-Afghan War. The...
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Scotland Forever! (category Use dmy dates from April 2022)
Call of 1874, on a subject from the Crimean War, and her 1879 painting Remnants of an Army, on the 1842 retreat from Kabul. Although Butler had never...
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Battle of Gandamak (category 1842 in military history)
Battle of Gandamak on 13 January 1842 was a defeat of British forces by Afghan tribesmen in the 1842 retreat from Kabul of General Elphinstone's army, during...
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Wazir Akbar Khan (category Short description is different from Wikidata)
Anglo-Afghan War, which lasted from 1839 to 1842. He is prominent for his leadership of the national party in Kabul from 1841 to 1842, and his massacre of Elphinstone's...
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Jezail (category Short description is different from Wikidata)
during their 1842 retreat from Kabul to Jalalabad. In the First Anglo-Afghan War the British established a cantonment outside of Kabul with dirt walls approximately...
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First Anglo-Afghan War (category Short description is different from Wikidata)
completely massacred during the 1842 retreat from Kabul. The British then sent what was widely termed an "Army of Retribution" to Kabul to avenge the destruction...
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Afghanistan (redirect from Afghanistan/Article from the 1911 Encyclopedia)
ruler of Kabul, a de facto puppet of the British. Following an uprising that saw the assassination of Shah Shuja, the 1842 retreat from Kabul of British-Indian...
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1975 Fall of Damascus, Syria, 2024 Soviet withdrawal from Afghanistan 1842 retreat from Kabul Kabul International Airport Non-US, non-Afghan nationals Compare...
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Donald Macintyre (Indian Army officer) (category Wikipedia articles incorporating a citation from the ODNB)
1842 retreat from Kabul, and another James Travers, who won the VC in the Indian Mutiny. Macintyre was educated at Addiscombe Military Seminary from 1848...
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Flashman (novel) (category Short description is different from Wikidata)
for Flashman's proceeding adventures, including the disastrous 1842 retreat from Kabul and the Battle of Jellalabad, in the First Anglo-Afghan War. Despite...
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List of heads of state of Afghanistan (category Short description is different from Wikidata)
under the British auspices. Shah Shujah was assassinated in 1842, following the British retreat. Afterwards the Barakzai dynasty regained power, eventually...
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killing of the British resident and loss of mission in Kabul and the 1842 retreat from Kabul to Jalalabad, in which 4,500 regular British troops and...
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Thomas Alexander Souter (category Wikipedia articles incorporating a citation from the 1911 Encyclopaedia Britannica with Wikisource reference)
lieutenant in 1835 after serving in the 57th Foot. During the 1842 retreat from Kabul, Souter lost two horses and sustained a serious shoulder wound...
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Mountain warfare (category Short description is different from Wikidata)
invasion of Afghanistan ended in 1842, when 16,000 British soldiers and camp followers were killed as they retreated from Kabul through the Hindu Kush back...
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Battle of Geok Tepe (1879) (category Short description is different from Wikidata)
the Little Big Horn, Battle of Isandlwana, Battle of Adwa, and 1842 retreat from Kabul. Aerial view of battlefield and memorial mosque 38°10′02″N 57°58′04″E...
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List of governors-general of India (category Wikipedia articles incorporating a citation from the 1911 Encyclopaedia Britannica with Wikisource reference)
Governor-General, and the decision of the council was binding on the Governor-General from 1773–1784. The charter Act 1833 re-designated the office with the title of...
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William Spottiswoode Trevor (category Wikipedia articles incorporating a citation from the ODNB)
the Afghans following the 1842 retreat from Kabul. They were rescued following General Pollock's reoccupation of Kabul in 1842. A younger brother was Sir...
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Donald Rumsfeld (category Pages using infobox officeholder with ambassador from or minister from)
as had happened to the Soviets in the Soviet–Afghan War and the 1842 retreat from Kabul by the British. Rumsfeld rejected Franks's plan, saying "I want...
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William Fullerton-Elphinstone (category Short description is different from Wikidata)
Anglo-Afghan War. He died as a captive after being captured during the 1842 retreat from Kabul. No issue. Elizabeth (1783 – 28 October 1802). No issue. John Fullerton...
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James Travers (category Wikipedia articles incorporating a citation from A Naval Biographical Dictionary (1849))
sister married Doctor William Brydon, the sole survivor of the 1842 retreat from Kabul. Travers' medals are in private ownership. Philip A. Wilkins, The...
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5th Bengal Light Cavalry (category Use dmy dates from July 2019)
annihilated while serving as a rearguard during the disastrous 1842 retreat from Kabul. The remainder took part in the defence of Jellalabad under General...
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William George Keith Elphinstone (category 1842 deaths)
The Story of the Disastrous Retreat from Kabul 1842. Book Club Associates, London. Macrory, Patrick. 2002. Retreat from Kabul: The Catastrophic British...
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James Rattray (category Articles with dead external links from September 2024)
the Kabul valley. James was in Khandahar in December 1841.[better source needed] He helped man the rearguard during the army's 1842 retreat from Kabul from...
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Battle of Taku Forts (1859) (category Short description is different from Wikidata)
was possibly the worst defeat the British had suffered since the 1842 retreat from Kabul. One of the battle's survivors declared he would rather relive...
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