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The First Anglo-Afghan War (Pashto: ده انګريز افغان اولني جګړه) was fought between the British Empire and the Emirate of Kabul from 1838 to 1842. The British initially successfully invaded the country taking sides in a succession dispute between emir Dost Mohammad Khan and former King Shah Shujah (), whom they reinstalled upon occupying Kabul in August 1839.
Anglo-Afghan Wars may refer to: British-Afghan wars and conflicts First Anglo-Afghan War (1838–1842) Second Anglo-Afghan War (1878–1880) Mohmand campaign of 1897–1898 (Siege of Malakand & Tirah Campaign) Third Anglo-Afghan War (1919) Waziristan Campaign (1919-20) Mohmand Campaign (1935) Waziristan campaign (1936-39) American-Afghan War
The 1842 retreat from Kabul was the retreat of the British and East India Company forces from Kabul during the First Anglo-Afghan War. [4] An uprising in Kabul forced the then-commander, Major-General William Elphinstone, to fall back to the British garrison at Jalalabad.
The Parwan Campaign took place from October–November 1840, as a result of Dost Mohammad Khan's rebellion against Shah Shuja and the British backed regime. The Parwan campaign had over 13 battles, with each and every one of them ending in an Afghan victory, including a final confrontation at Parwan Darra with Robert Sale.
In the years immediately following the First Anglo-Afghan War, and especially after the Indian rebellion of 1857 against the British in India, Liberal Party governments in London took a political view of Afghanistan as a buffer state. By the time Sher Ali had established control in Kabul in 1868, he found the British ready to support his regime ...
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The 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 which the last survivors of the force—twenty officers and forty-five British soldiers of the 44th East Essex Regiment—were killed. [1]
Political officers in Sindh decided to reinforce General Nott at Kandahar. [1] [2] The troops made their way to Quetta under Brigadier-General Richard England.[1] [2] Nott retained his position [3] and did not send reinforcements to catch up with England's detachment, which arrived at Hykulzye on 28 March, [2] knowing nothing about the territory.