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Battle Story: Kabul 1841-42

Author : Edmund Yorke
Publisher : The History Press
ISBN 13 : 0752481304
Total Pages : 185 pages
Book Rating : 4.7/5 (524 download)

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Download or read book Battle Story: Kabul 1841-42 written by Edmund Yorke and published by The History Press. This book was released on 2012-01-31 with total page 185 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Kabul is a name that has had much resonance in current affairs over the last few years, however its place in military history can be charted much further back to the first British incursions into Afghanistan during the 19th century. The First Anglo-Afghan War saw British India attempting to obtain power over Central Asia by gaining control of Afghanistan. The British had little understanding or appreciation of the terrain or tribal warfare in Afghanistan and incurred heavy casualties, despite being far superior in training and weaponry than the Afghan warriors they faced. In 1841 the British, having held Kabul for several years in an attempt to stop the Afghans colluding with the Russians, relaxed their grip on the garrison, allowing the Afghans to rebel, leading to the slaughter of over 16,000 British and Indian troops and camp followers. The outrage from the disaster resounded throughout the British Empire and reinforcements were sent to Afghanistan in 1842 to quell the Afghan troops. However, a rash of uprisings broke out around Kabul, leading to the murder of Indian sepoys and the imprisonment of British officers. In retribution an army was sent to support the British retreat from Afghanistan, laying waste to the city of Kabul on their way.

Battle Story: Kabul 1841-42

Author : Edmund James Yorke
Publisher : Spellmount, Limited Publishers
ISBN 13 : 9780752479361
Total Pages : 0 pages
Book Rating : 4.4/5 (793 download)

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Download or read book Battle Story: Kabul 1841-42 written by Edmund James Yorke and published by Spellmount, Limited Publishers. This book was released on 2012 with total page 0 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Kabul is a name that has had much resonance in current affairs over the last few years, however its place in military history can be charted much further back to the first British incursions into Afghanistan during the 19th century. The First Anglo-Afghan War saw British India attempting to obtain power over Central Asia by gaining control of Afghanistan. The British had little understanding or appreciation of the terrain or tribal warfare in Afghanistan and incurred heavy casualties, despite being far superior in training and weaponry than the Afghan warriors they faced. In 1841 the British, having held Kabul for several years in an attempt to stop the Afghans colluding with the Russians, relaxed their grip on the garrison, allowing the Afghans to rebel, leading to the slaughter of over 16,000 British and Indian troops and camp followers. The outrage from the disaster resounded throughout the British Empire and reinforcements were sent to Afghanistan in 1842 to quell the Afghan troops. However, a rash of uprisings broke out around Kabul, leading to the murder of Indian sepoys and the imprisonment of British officers. In retribution an army was sent to support the British retreat from Afghanistan, laying waste to the city of Kabul on their way.

Battle Story: Kabul 1841-42

Author : Edmund Yorke
Publisher : The History Press
ISBN 13 : 0752481304
Total Pages : 181 pages
Book Rating : 4.7/5 (524 download)

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Download or read book Battle Story: Kabul 1841-42 written by Edmund Yorke and published by The History Press. This book was released on 2012-01-31 with total page 181 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Kabul is a name that has had much resonance in current affairs over the last few years, however its place in military history can be charted much further back to the first British incursions into Afghanistan during the 19th century. The First Anglo-Afghan War saw British India attempting to obtain power over Central Asia by gaining control of Afghanistan. The British had little understanding or appreciation of the terrain or tribal warfare in Afghanistan and incurred heavy casualties, despite being far superior in training and weaponry than the Afghan warriors they faced. In 1841 the British, having held Kabul for several years in an attempt to stop the Afghans colluding with the Russians, relaxed their grip on the garrison, allowing the Afghans to rebel, leading to the slaughter of over 16,000 British and Indian troops and camp followers. The outrage from the disaster resounded throughout the British Empire and reinforcements were sent to Afghanistan in 1842 to quell the Afghan troops. However, a rash of uprisings broke out around Kabul, leading to the murder of Indian sepoys and the imprisonment of British officers. In retribution an army was sent to support the British retreat from Afghanistan, laying waste to the city of Kabul on their way.

The Kabul Insurrection of 1841-42

Author : Sir Vincent Eyre
Publisher : London : W.H. Allen
ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 364 pages
Book Rating : 4.R/5 (6 download)

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Download or read book The Kabul Insurrection of 1841-42 written by Sir Vincent Eyre and published by London : W.H. Allen. This book was released on 1879 with total page 364 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The Kabul Insurrection of 1841-42 by Sir Vincent Eyre (1811-81) is an updated and expanded edition of his The Military Operations at Cabul, originally published in 1843. Eyre was an officer in the Indian army who served as commissary of ordnance in the Kabul Field Force that marched into Afghanistan in the fall of 1839. He arrived in Kabul in April 1840, bringing with him a large quantity of ordnance stores. In November 1841 he was caught up in the uprising in Kabul by the Afghans against the Anglo-Indian force in which Sir Alexander Burnes was killed. The occupiers were besieged in their cantonments and Eyre was severely wounded. Under a treaty with the Afghan government, in early 1842 the Anglo-Indian force was given safe passage to evacuate the country. Accompanied by his wife and child, Eyre joined the column heading eastward but, along with the other British soldiers and civilians, he was taken hostage by the amir, Akbar Khan (1816-45, ruled 1842-45). The British hostages spent nearly nine months in captivity and suffered many privations, including severe cold and the effects of an earthquake and its aftershocks. In August 1842 the captives were marched north towards Bamyan in the Hindu Kush under the threat of being sold as slaves to the Uzbeks. They finally were released on September 20, after one of the prisoners, Major Pottinger, succeeded in buying off the Afghan commander of their escort. Prior to his release, Eyre had managed to smuggle the manuscript of his journal in parts to a friend in India, who sent it to England where, with the help of Eyre's relatives, it was published the following year as The Military Operations at Cabul, as were his Prison Sketches, Comprising Portraits of the Cabul Prisoners, and Other Subjects. Eyre went on to have a distinguished army career, and retired with the rank of major general in October 1863. With the onset of the Second Anglo-Afghan War in late 1878, Eyre decided to reissue his journal from the earlier war. Published in 1879, The Kabul Insurrection of 1841-42 contains a new author's preface and two new preliminary chapters, the first a brief account of Afghanistan and its inhabitants, the second a retrospective, from the vantage point of the late 1870s, on the First Anglo-Afghan War (1839-42). The contents of the older book are then reproduced, with the journal beginning at chapter four. The Kabul Insurrection of 1841-42 includes a fold-out map by Eyre of the Kabul cantonment and surrounding country that appeared in the older book, a sketch map of Afghanistan, and three appendices with the texts of documents relating to the 1841 uprising in Kabul.

Return of a King

Author : William Dalrymple
Publisher : Vintage
ISBN 13 : 0307958299
Total Pages : 494 pages
Book Rating : 4.3/5 (79 download)

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Download or read book Return of a King written by William Dalrymple and published by Vintage. This book was released on 2013-04-16 with total page 494 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: From William Dalrymple—award-winning historian, journalist and travel writer—a masterly retelling of what was perhaps the West’s greatest imperial disaster in the East, and an important parable of neocolonial ambition, folly and hubris that has striking relevance to our own time. With access to newly discovered primary sources from archives in Afghanistan, Pakistan, Russia and India—including a series of previously untranslated Afghan epic poems and biographies—the author gives us the most immediate and comprehensive account yet of the spectacular first battle for Afghanistan: the British invasion of the remote kingdom in 1839. Led by lancers in scarlet cloaks and plumed helmets, and facing little resistance, nearly 20,000 British and East India Company troops poured through the mountain passes from India into Afghanistan in order to reestablish Shah Shuja ul-Mulk on the throne, and as their puppet. But after little more than two years, the Afghans rose in answer to the call for jihad and the country exploded into rebellion. This First Anglo-Afghan War ended with an entire army of what was then the most powerful military nation in the world ambushed and destroyed in snowbound mountain passes by simply equipped Afghan tribesmen. Only one British man made it through. But Dalrymple takes us beyond the bare outline of this infamous battle, and with penetrating, balanced insight illuminates the uncanny similarities between the West’s first disastrous entanglement with Afghanistan and the situation today. He delineates the straightforward facts: Shah Shuja and President Hamid Karzai share the same tribal heritage; the Shah’s principal opponents were the Ghilzai tribe, who today make up the bulk of the Taliban’s foot soldiers; the same cities garrisoned by the British are today garrisoned by foreign troops, attacked from the same rings of hills and high passes from which the British faced attack. Dalryrmple also makes clear the byzantine complexity of Afghanistan’s age-old tribal rivalries, the stranglehold they have on the politics of the nation and the ways in which they ensnared both the British in the nineteenth century and NATO forces in the twenty-first. Informed by the author’s decades-long firsthand knowledge of Afghanistan, and superbly shaped by his hallmark gifts as a narrative historian and his singular eye for the evocation of place and culture, The Return of a King is both the definitive analysis of the First Anglo-Afghan War and a work of stunning topicality.

The Military Operations at Cabul-The Kabul Insurrection of 1841-42 & Rough Notes During Imprisonment in Affghanistan, 1843

Author : Vincent Eyre
Publisher :
ISBN 13 : 9780857065902
Total Pages : 272 pages
Book Rating : 4.0/5 (659 download)

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Download or read book The Military Operations at Cabul-The Kabul Insurrection of 1841-42 & Rough Notes During Imprisonment in Affghanistan, 1843 written by Vincent Eyre and published by . This book was released on 2011-06 with total page 272 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: A classic account of the war in Afghanistan This is a well known and highly regarded book concerning the First Afghan War, it was written by a senior British soldier who experienced the conflict at first hand and wrote a substantial part of his narratives whilst actually imprisoned by the Afghans. Eyre and his family were captured by Akbar Khan and held for nine months until rescued by General Pollock's forces. Some of the manuscript was smuggled out of his cell while he remained a captive and on its arrival in England it was published. At the time, Eyre's account and that recounting similar experiences by Lady Florentia Sale (also available as a Leonaur edition) were considered companion pieces that would enable the British public to understand the Afghan debacle, the disaster that had there befallen the army under Elphinstone and the resulting annihilation of the army in the Afghan passes as it struggled to retreat into India. This book necessarily relates the First Afghan War in all its appalling detail and it therefore has few equals, as a consequence it is a source work of the most important and invaluable kind that is essential reading for all those interested in the subject as well as a vital addition to any library on the history of the British in Afghanistan. Leonaur editions are newly typeset and are not facsimiles; each title is available in softcover and hardback with dustjacket; our hardbacks are cloth bound and feature gold foil lettering on their spines and fabric head and tail bands.

A Journal of the Disasters in Afghanistan, 1841-2

Author : Lady Florentina Wynch Sale
Publisher :
ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 500 pages
Book Rating : 4.:/5 (31 download)

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Download or read book A Journal of the Disasters in Afghanistan, 1841-2 written by Lady Florentina Wynch Sale and published by . This book was released on 1843 with total page 500 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Kabul Catastrophe

Author : Patrick Arthur Macrory
Publisher : Virago Press
ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 292 pages
Book Rating : 4.3/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Kabul Catastrophe written by Patrick Arthur Macrory and published by Virago Press. This book was released on 2002 with total page 292 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: In 1839 a large British army invaded Afghanistan in order to place upon the throne a ruler deemed more friendly to the British in Delhi than the incumbent Dost Mohammed. Many voices in London warned against the foolhardy enterprise, among them that of the Duke of Wellington, who foresaw shame and disaster. The enterprise started well. The army conquered all before it, including reputedly impregnable fortresses. But only two years after being established in Kabul, attached on all sides by the hostile Afghans, the British retreated in mid-winter, 1842, trying to regain India. Of the 16,000 soldiers and others who left the city, only one person survived the journey as far as Jalalabad. It was one of the worse catastrophes to befall the British Empire.

The Afghan Wars, 1839-42 and 1878-80

Author : Archibald Forbes
Publisher : IndyPublish.com
ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 376 pages
Book Rating : 4.B/5 (1 download)

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Download or read book The Afghan Wars, 1839-42 and 1878-80 written by Archibald Forbes and published by IndyPublish.com. This book was released on 1892 with total page 376 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This is a pre-1923 historical reproduction that was curated for quality. Quality assurance was conducted on each of these books in an attempt to remove books with imperfections introduced by the digitization process. Though we have made best efforts - the books may have occasional errors that do not impede the reading experience. We believe this work is culturally important and have elected to bring the book back into print as part of our continuing commitment to the preservation of printed works worldwide.

The First Afghan War 1839–42

Author : Richard Macrory Hon KC
Publisher : Bloomsbury Publishing
ISBN 13 : 1472813987
Total Pages : 100 pages
Book Rating : 4.4/5 (728 download)

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Download or read book The First Afghan War 1839–42 written by Richard Macrory Hon KC and published by Bloomsbury Publishing. This book was released on 2016-08-25 with total page 100 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: In 1839 forces of the British East India Company crossed the Indus to invade Afghanistan on the pretext of reinstating a former king Shah Soojah to his rightful throne. The reality was that this was another step in Britain's Great Game – Afghanistan would create a buffer to any potential Russian expansion towards India. This history traces the initial, campaign which would see the British easily occupy Kabul and the rebellion that two years later would see the British army humbled. Forced to negotiate a surrender the British fled Kabul en masse in the harsh Afghan winter. Decimated by Afghan guerilla attacks and by the harsh cold and a lack of food and supplies just one European – Dr Brydon would make it to the safety of Jalalabad five days later. This book goes on to trace the retribution attack on Kabul the following year, which destroyed the symbolic Mogul Bazaar before rapidly withdrawing and leaving Afghanistan in peace for nearly a generation.

The Kabul Insurrection of 1841-42

Author : Sir Vincent Eyre
Publisher : Andesite Press
ISBN 13 : 9781296862602
Total Pages : 358 pages
Book Rating : 4.8/5 (626 download)

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Download or read book The Kabul Insurrection of 1841-42 written by Sir Vincent Eyre and published by Andesite Press. This book was released on 2015-08-13 with total page 358 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This work has been selected by scholars as being culturally important, and is part of the knowledge base of civilization as we know it. This work was reproduced from the original artifact, and remains as true to the original work as possible. Therefore, you will see the original copyright references, library stamps (as most of these works have been housed in our most important libraries around the world), and other notations in the work. This work is in the public domain in the United States of America, and possibly other nations. Within the United States, you may freely copy and distribute this work, as no entity (individual or corporate) has a copyright on the body of the work.As a reproduction of a historical artifact, this work may contain missing or blurred pages, poor pictures, errant marks, etc. Scholars believe, and we concur, that this work is important enough to be preserved, reproduced, and made generally available to the public. We appreciate your support of the preservation process, and thank you for being an important part of keeping this knowledge alive and relevant.

The Kabul Insurrection of 1841-42 - Primary Source Edition

Author : Sir Vincent Eyre
Publisher : Nabu Press
ISBN 13 : 9781294915287
Total Pages : 358 pages
Book Rating : 4.9/5 (152 download)

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Download or read book The Kabul Insurrection of 1841-42 - Primary Source Edition written by Sir Vincent Eyre and published by Nabu Press. This book was released on 2014-03 with total page 358 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This is a reproduction of a book published before 1923. This book may have occasional imperfections such as missing or blurred pages, poor pictures, errant marks, etc. that were either part of the original artifact, or were introduced by the scanning process. We believe this work is culturally important, and despite the imperfections, have elected to bring it back into print as part of our continuing commitment to the preservation of printed works worldwide. We appreciate your understanding of the imperfections in the preservation process, and hope you enjoy this valuable book. ++++ The below data was compiled from various identification fields in the bibliographic record of this title. This data is provided as an additional tool in helping to ensure edition identification: ++++ The Kabul Insurrection Of 1841-42 Sir Vincent Eyre George Bruce Malleson Wm. H. Allen, 1879 Afghan Wars

History of Afghanistan; from the Earliest Period to the Outbreak of the War Of 1878

Author : George Bruce Malleson
Publisher : Theclassics.Us
ISBN 13 : 9781230394404
Total Pages : 114 pages
Book Rating : 4.3/5 (944 download)

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Download or read book History of Afghanistan; from the Earliest Period to the Outbreak of the War Of 1878 written by George Bruce Malleson and published by Theclassics.Us. This book was released on 2013-09 with total page 114 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This historic book may have numerous typos and missing text. Purchasers can usually download a free scanned copy of the original book (without typos) from the publisher. Not indexed. Not illustrated. 1879 edition. Excerpt: ... AFGHANISTAN. CHAPTER I. DESCRIPTIVE. In his work entitled "Reminiscences of a Bengal Civilian," Mr. William Edwards, then AssistantSecretary to the Government of India in the Foreign Department, describes the departure of Amir Dost Mahammad, on the termination of the Afghan war in 1841, to resume his position as ruler of Kabul. "Just before parting," he writes, "the Amir, addressing the Governor-General in Persian, observed: -- I have seen a great deal of your Government since I came to India. Your forts, your arsenals, your ships, all are admirable. I have been down to Calcutta, and havo been astonished with your wealth, your palaces, your marts, and your mint; but to me the most wonderful thing of all is, that so wise and wealthy a nation could have ever entertained the project of occupying such a country as Kabul, where there is nothing but rocks and stones.'" It will be my task to explain, in the pages which follow, the reasons which in past ages have invested, and which in the present hour particularly invest this country of rocks and stones with an importance far beyond its territorial value--an importance so vast that, in the opinion of many, the safety of India depends upon the predominance of British influence in the lands immediately beyond the British frontier. The country inhabited by the Afghans, and known generally as the kingdom of Kabul, is traversed from east to west by the Hindu Kiish, and the prolongation to the westward of that mighty range. The mountains forming the prolongation branch off from the Koh-i-Baba, a lofty range eighty miles in length, and some eighteen thousand feet high, and itself the western continuation of the Hindu Kiish proper. Running westward, the mountains soon break into three parallel...

Afghan Wars 1839-42 and 1878-80

Author : Archibald Forbes
Publisher : Createspace Independent Publishing Platform
ISBN 13 : 9781535208345
Total Pages : 226 pages
Book Rating : 4.2/5 (83 download)

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Download or read book Afghan Wars 1839-42 and 1878-80 written by Archibald Forbes and published by Createspace Independent Publishing Platform. This book was released on 2016-07-11 with total page 226 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The First Anglo-Afghan War (also known as Auckland's Folly) was fought between the British East India Company and Afghanistan from 1839 to 1842.[ It is famous for the killing of 4,500 British and Indian soldiers, plus 12,000 of their camp followers, by Afghan tribal fighters, but the British defeated the Afghans in the concluding engagement. It was one of the first major conflicts during the Great Game, the 19th century competition for power and influence in Asia between the United Kingdom and the Russian Empire.

Journal of the Disasters in Afghanistan 1841-2

Author : Lady Florentia Sale
Publisher :
ISBN 13 : 9781845742652
Total Pages : 476 pages
Book Rating : 4.7/5 (426 download)

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Download or read book Journal of the Disasters in Afghanistan 1841-2 written by Lady Florentia Sale and published by . This book was released on 2005-09-01 with total page 476 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Dubbed the soldier s wife par excellence by The Times, Florentia Sale was one of the most remarkable figures of the First Afghan War. The wife of Brigadier (Later Major-General Sir) Robert Sale, who was to die in the first Sikh War at Mudki in 1845, she had remained in Kabul with her daughter and son-in-law whilst her husband defended Jalalabad. She was forced to join the disastrous retreat from Kabul in January 1842, when she was twice wounded, and taken into captivity with a number of others by Akbar Khan. Her Journal covers the events in Kabul and the retreat as well as her nine month s captivity and eventual rescue.

Kandahar in the Nineteenth Century

Author : William B. Trousdale
Publisher : BRILL
ISBN 13 : 9004445226
Total Pages : 275 pages
Book Rating : 4.0/5 (44 download)

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Download or read book Kandahar in the Nineteenth Century written by William B. Trousdale and published by BRILL. This book was released on 2021-03-08 with total page 275 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This comprehensive history of Kandahar uses unpublished and fugitive sources to provide a detailed picture of the geographical layout and political, social, ethnic, religious, and economic life in Afghanistan’s second largest city throughout the nineteenth century.

Battle Story: Maiwand 1880

Author : Edmund Yorke
Publisher : The History Press
ISBN 13 : 0752492551
Total Pages : 156 pages
Book Rating : 4.7/5 (524 download)

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Download or read book Battle Story: Maiwand 1880 written by Edmund Yorke and published by The History Press. This book was released on 2013-03-01 with total page 156 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The Battle of Maiwand was a key clash in the Second Anglo-Afghan War and one of the most serious defeats of the British Army during the 'Great Game'. British and Indian troops, in an attempt to intercept Afghan forces at the Maiwand Pass, disastrously underestimated the strength of the enemy and were heavily defeated. If you want to understand what happened and why – read Battle Story. Detailed profiles explore the personalities of the British and Afghan leaders, Brigadier General George Burrows and Ayub Khan. Diary extracts and quotes detail the intense fighting and the causes of the British defeat. Maps examine the movements of the British and Afghan forces as they clashed at the Maiwand Pass. Contemporary images place the reader at the forefront of the unfolding action. Orders of battle show the composition of the opposing forces' armies. Packed with fact boxes, this short introduction is the perfect way to explore this crucial battle.