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

+ 4 more in the atlas.

Sources

  1. Wikipedia — text reused under CC BY-SA 4.0

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34.53°N · 69.17°E · 1839 – 1842WARS-ATLAS / CONFLICT / FIRST-ANGLO-AFGHAN-WAR

Cite as: First Anglo-Afghan War (1839 – 1842). War Atlas. https://waratlas.org/c/first-anglo-afghan-war · Sources & methodology