Regional1839 – 1842 · 3 years
First Anglo-Afghan War
Afghanistan · Kabul · Kandahar
Estimated casualties
20K – 100Kestimated dead
HEADLINE50K — the single figure used on the map
1839-1842. British military and Afghan civilian casualties.
SOURCEWikipedia: First Anglo-Afghan War
British invasion aimed at controlling Afghanistan. Costly occupation ended in British retreat.
Belligerents2
- United Kingdom
- Afghanistan
ON THE MAPBritish Empire (1837)
Conflict graph
SUB-CONFLICTS · 16
- Battle of Ghazni1839
- Battle of Kalat1839
- Battle of Bamian1840
- Battle of Kahan1840
- Battle of Parwan Durrah1840
- Battle of Charikar1841
- Battle of Tezin1841
- Battle of Wali Kotal (1st)1842
- Battle of Kotal (2nd)1842
- Battle of Ghoaine1842
- Battle of Haikalzai1842
- Battle of Jagdalak (1st)1842
+ 4 more in the atlas.
Sources
- Wikipedia — text reused under CC BY-SA 4.0
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Cite as: First Anglo-Afghan War (1839 – 1842). War Atlas. https://waratlas.org/c/first-anglo-afghan-war · Sources & methodology