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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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  • Siege of Kabul (1504), during the campaigns of Babur Kabul Expedition (1842) (August–October 1842), during the First Anglo-Afghan War Siege of the Sherpur...
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    Afghan tribesmen. In 1842 the British returned to Kabul, demolishing the city's main bazaar in revenge during the Kabul Expedition (1842) before returning...
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    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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    the 1842 campaign in Afghanistan, taking part in the successful storming of the Khyber Pass; the occupation of Jelalabad and the occupation of Kabul. Smith...
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    ships. The Battle of Kabul in 1842 was undertaken by the British against the Afghans following their disastrous retreat from Kabul in which 16,000 people...
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    جګړه) was fought between the British Empire and the Emirate of Kabul from 1838 to 1842. The British initially successfully invaded the country taking...
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    War, fought between 1838 and 1842. During the war, Britain occupied the capital, Kabul, of the then called Emirate of Kabul, in an effort to prevent Afghanistan...
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    Ghuzni, Kabul, and Afghanistan, and of a residence at the court of Dost Mohamed with notices of Runjit Sing, Khiva, and the Russian expedition. With illus...
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    Shah Shujah Durrani (category 1842 deaths)
    army near Kabul on April 4, 1842, notionally to launch an attack on the British. Having been passed over for a command in this expedition, his godson...
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    independent kingdoms, including but not limited to Herat, Kandahar and Kabul. Afghanistan would be reunited in the 19th century after seven decades of...
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    ancient Alexandria on the Caucasus), north of Kabul. From 1827, when he deserted, to his return to England in 1842, it is estimated that Masson collected around...
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    January 1842, the Afghans were in full revolt. With a weakening of military discipline, the British decided to withdraw from Kabul. The Kabul garrison...
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    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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  • 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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    Valley Expeditions (1855–6) Bozdar Expedition (1857) Expedition against the Hindustani Fanatics (1857–8). Sepoy Rebellion (1857–8) (Indian Mutiny) Kabul Khel...
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    of Kabul. Cambridge University Press. ISBN 9781139199094. OCLC 967378175. Shahamat Ali (1970) The Sikhs and Afghans. Patiala, Harlan, Josiah (1842) A...
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    the 1506 Battle of Qalati Ghilji, the Timurid ruler Babur marched out of Kabul with the intention to crush Ghilji Pashtuns. On the way, the Timurid army...
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    Robert Warburton (category 1842 births)
    massacre of English at Kabul on 1 November 1841. She was sheltered by her relatives and finally rejoined her husband on 20 September 1842. At the close of the...
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    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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    in the First Anglo-Afghan War of 1838–1842. His biography of Dost Mohammad Khan, the Emir of Afghanistan in Kabul, is a primary source on the war. Mohan...
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  • in and around Kabul town. One of the first triumphs of this resistance, under Mir Masjidi's command, was when they wiped out an expedition sent out to reduce...
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    The Proclamation of the Gates (category 1842 in British India)
    an order issued in 1842 by Lord Ellenborough, then the Governor-General of Britain's territories in India, during the Battle of Kabul. This order demanded...
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    Action at Hykulzye (category Conflicts in 1842)
    the British envoy, Sir William Hay Macnaghten, was murdered at Kabul, and in February 1842 the commander-in-chief, General Elphinstone, sent orders that...
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    Donald Macintyre (Indian Army officer) (category British military personnel of the Lushai Expedition)
    surgeon William Brydon, one of the few European survivors of the 1842 retreat from Kabul, and another James Travers, who won the VC in the Indian Mutiny...
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    elevation of 1,010 m (3,310 ft). It is Afghanistan's second largest city, after Kabul, with a population of about 614,118. It is the capital of Kandahar Province...
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    on 16 July 1842, he transferred to the 1st Cavalry of Shah Shujah's Contingent and took part in a march from Kandahar to Kabul in August 1842. During the...
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    Hindu Kush (category Landforms of Kabul Province)
    footnote. ISBN 978-90-04-10399-3. Stewart, Terry. "Britain's Retreat from Kabul 1842". Historic UK. Mohammed Kakar (1995). Afghanistan: The Soviet Invasion...
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    the Kabul Legation was opened in June 1942. Colonel Gordon B. Enders of the United States Army was appointed the first military attaché to Kabul and Cornelius...
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  • death of Fateh Khan Wazir in 1818, governor Azim Khan left Kashmir for Kabul to assume Wazir's office, leaving Jabbar Khan in charge of Kashmir. Birbal...
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