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Battle of Peiwar Kotal

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Afghanistan

Estimated casualties

Casualty figures unrecorded for this conflict.

Battle of Peiwar Kotal (1878), part of the 2nd British Afghan War. United Kingdom defeated Afghanistan.

Belligerents2

United Kingdom
Afghanistan

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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