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Military History - Anglo-Afghan Wars - English
URL: http://www.skalman.nu/history/anglo-afghan.htm

Books on this conflict. Battle at Charasia. First Anglo-Afghan War. Storming of Takht-I-Shah Peak. Third Afghan War.

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The First Anglo-Afghan War - English
URL: http://www.geocities.com/Broadway/Alley/5443/afopen.htm

Disastrous start to the Great Game and massacre on the retreat from Kabul, Afghanistan, 1842.

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A Brief Description and Some Notes on the Battle of Maiwand - English
URL: http://www.members.dca.net/fbl/maiwand.html

by Fred Larimore.

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Anglo-Afghan Wars -- Britannica Concise Encyclopedia Online Article - English
URL: http://concise.britannica.com/ebc/article?eu=7673

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(1839–42; 1878–80; 1919), three conflicts in which Great Britain, from its base in India, sought to extend its control over neighbouring Afghanistan and to oppose Russian influence there. The first war demonstrated the ease of overrunning Afghanistan and the difficulty of holding it. The second war proved to be a Pyrrhic victory for the British.

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The First Anglo-Afghan War - The British in Kabul, the death of Macnaghten and Burnes - English
URL: http://www.geocities.com/Broadway/Alley/5443/af3.htm

After Shah Shujah was installed on the throne in Kabul, life was not particularly onerous for the British there. The city was quiet and it was not long before General Keane and most of the army returned to India. Soon the British felt secure enough to move from their cramped quarters in the Bala Hissar citadel to a cantonment built on the plain just outside the city.

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