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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.
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.
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
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]
The Battle of Jalalabad in 1842 was an Afghan siege of the isolated British outpost at Jalalabad, about 90 miles (140 km) east of Kabul during the First Anglo-Afghan War. The siege was lifted after five months when a British counterattack routed the Afghans, driving them back to Kabul.
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.