Significant1837 – 1838 · 1 year

First Herat War

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Herat · western Afghanistan

Estimated casualties

Casualty figures unrecorded for this conflict.

From November 1837 the Qajar shah Mohammad Mirza besieged Herat, defended by Kamran Shah and Yar Mohammad Khan; British pressure and a naval threat in the Gulf forced Persia to lift the siege in September 1838, a key episode of the Great Game.

Belligerents2

Qajar Iran
Principality of Herat

ON THE MAPQajar Dynasty

Sources

Wikipedia: First Herat War
Iran Chamber Society: The Siege of Herat 1837-1838
Wikipedia — text reused under CC BY-SA 4.0

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