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Battle of Kahan

Name: War Atlas: Named Conflicts and Empire Borders, 3000 BCE – Present
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Pakistan

Estimated casualties

Casualty figures unrecorded for this conflict.

Battle of Kahan (1840), part of the 1st British-Afghan War. Afghanistan defeated United Kingdom. Battle followed by a massacre.

Belligerents2

Afghanistan
United Kingdom

ON THE MAPBritish Empire (1837)

Conflict graph

PART OFFirst Anglo-Afghan War

Sources

HCED — Miller & Bakar (2023), Historical Conflict Event Dataset, J. Conflict Resolution 67(2-3)
Jaques, Dictionary of Battles and Sieges (HCED primary source)

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