Regional1878 – 1880 · 2 years

Second Anglo-Afghan War

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Afghanistan · Kabul · Kandahar

Estimated casualties

15K – 50Kestimated dead

HEADLINE30K — the single figure used on the map

British ~10,000 dead (mostly disease); Afghan losses several thousand in battle plus civilians

SOURCEWikipedia: Second Anglo-Afghan War

British military campaign to control Afghanistan. Established British control over Afghan foreign policy.

Belligerents2

United Kingdom
Afghanistan

ON THE MAPBritish Empire (1880)

Conflict graph

SUB-CONFLICTS · 6

Battle of Peiwar Kotal1878
Battle of Fatehabad1879
Battle of Ahmad Khel1880
Battle of Kandahar1880
Battle of Maiwand1880
Battle of Urzu1880

Sources

Wikipedia — text reused under CC BY-SA 4.0

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