Regional1880

Battle of Maiwand

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Afghanistan

Estimated casualties

Casualty figures unrecorded for this conflict.

Battle of Maiwand (1880), part of the 2nd British-Afghan War. Afghanistan defeated United Kingdom.

Belligerents2

Afghanistan
United Kingdom

ON THE MAPBritish Empire (1880)

Conflict graph

PART OFSecond 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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