British troops sent to Afghanistan
On 10 December 1838, British troops were sent out from Punjab to enter Afghanistan. Image: Detail: ‘Remnants of an Army’ by Elizabeth Butler portraying William Brydon arriving at the gates of Jalalabad as the only survivor of a 16,500 strong evacuation from Kabul in January 1842.
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Antoinette Burton, “On the First Anglo-Afghan War, 1839-42: Spectacle of Disaster”
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