Significant1839 – 1919 · 80 years

Anglo-Afghan Wars

Name: War Atlas: Named Conflicts and Empire Borders, 3000 BCE – Present
Creator: War Atlas
Keywords: wars, military history, conflicts, empires, historical atlas, casualties

Afghanistan

Estimated casualties

100K – 300Kestimated dead

HEADLINE200K — the single figure used on the map

Three wars 1839-1919. Aggregate casualties from multiple conflicts and occupations.

SOURCEWikipedia: Anglo-Afghan Wars

Three wars between Britain and Afghanistan over control of Central Asia.

Belligerents2

British Empire
Afghanistan

ON THE MAPBritish Empire (1837)

Conflict graph

SUB-CONFLICTS · 4

Battle of Ali Masjid1839
Battle of Ali Masjid1842
Battle of Ali Masjid1878
Battle of Charasia1879

Sources

Wikipedia — text reused under CC BY-SA 4.0

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Cite as: Anglo-Afghan Wars (1839 – 1919). War Atlas. https://waratlas.org/c/anglo-afghan-wars · Sources & methodology