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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.
During the First Anglo-Afghan War, British India invaded Afghanistan in 1838 but withdrew in 1842. During the three years a number of battles took place in different parts of Afghanistan. King Habibullah Khan with the military men of Afghanistan in the early 1900s.
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]
Anglo−Afghan Wars, wars conducted by British India in Afghanistan First Anglo−Afghan War (1839–1842) Second Anglo−Afghan War (1878–1880) Third Anglo−Afghan War (1919) Panjdeh incident (1885), an incursion into Afghanistan by the Russian Empire during the era of the "Great Game" Afghan Civil War (1928–1929), revolts by the Shinwari ...
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.
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. Operation Herrick (War in Afghanistan; November 2001 – December 2014)
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 ...
Wazir Akbar Khan was militarily active in the First 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 army at the Gandamak pass before the only survivor, the assistant surgeon William Brydon , reached the besieged garrison at ...