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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.
Elphinstone was promoted to major-general in 1837. In 1840 he was, under the patronage of FitzRoy Somerset, Lord Raglan, appointed to command the British Army then occupying Kabul during the First Anglo-Afghan War. In Britain he had been socially acquainted with George Eden, Earl of Auckland and Governor-General of India. Eden had approved ...
He left a small garrison in Ghazni and began to march his forces towards Kabul on July 30, 1839. When the Afghan ruler, Dost Muhammad, heard about the fall of Ghazni, he asked for terms of surrender but the British offer was exile in India, which was unacceptable to him. He fled Kabul towards Western Afghanistan and the Afghan army surrendered.
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.
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 ...
Dost Mohammad Khan Barakzai (Pashto/Persian: دوست محمد خان; 23 December 1792 – 8 June 1863), nicknamed the Amir-i Kabir, [5] [6] [7] was the founder of the Barakzai dynasty and one of the prominent rulers of Afghanistan during the First Anglo-Afghan War. [8] With the decline of the Durrani dynasty, he became the Emir of Afghanistan ...
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)
Afghan–Sikh Wars (1819-1837) Emirate of Kabul: Sikh Empire: ... First Anglo-Afghan War (1839–1842) Emirate of Kabul: British Empire. British East India Company ...