Regional1856 – 1857 · 1 year

Anglo-Persian War

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Bushire · Mohammerah (Khorramshahr) · Khoosh-Ab

Estimated casualties

Casualty figures unrecorded for this conflict.

A war fought 1856-57 between Britain and Qajar Persia over Persian designs on Herat in Afghanistan. British and British-Indian forces captured Bushire and Mohammerah, and the Treaty of Paris (1857) forced Persia to withdraw from Herat.

Belligerents2

United Kingdom (British India)
Qajar Persia

ON THE MAPQajar Dynasty

Conflict graph

SUB-CONFLICTS · 3

Battle of Herat1856
Battle of Khoosh-Ab1857
Battle of Mohammerah1857

Sources

Wikipedia: Anglo-Persian War
Encyclopaedia Iranica: Anglo-Persian War (1856-57)
Wikipedia — text reused under CC BY-SA 4.0

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