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[http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Sir_Donald_Stewart,_1st_Baronet General Stewart] set out with the third invading force from [[Multan]] and, on 8 January 1879, reached [[Kandahar]] which the enemy had abandoned. In March 1880 he left the Bombay division of his force as a garrison under Maj-Gen Primrose and marched to [[Kabul]] fighting battles at Ahmed Khel and Urzu on the way. Part of the field force went with [http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Frederick_Roberts,_1st_Earl_Roberts General Roberts] on his march to relieve [[Kandahar]] while he led the remainder back to India via the [[Khyber Pass]].
'''For details see the article [[General Stewart's March to Kandahar]]'''


== Kandahar Field Force ==
[[Category:2nd Afghan War|  General Stewart's March to Kandahar]]
 
'''''First Division'''''<br>
13,000 troops under ''[http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Sir_Donald_Stewart,_1st_Baronet Lt Gen Donald Stewart]''
 
'''Cavalry Brigade'''<br>
''Brig Gen Walter Fane''
*15th Hussars
*8th Cavalry
*19th Fane's Lancers
 
'''Royal Artillery'''<br>
''Brig Gen C. G. Arbuthnot''
*One Horse Battery
*Three Field Batteries
*Two Heavy Batteries
*Three Seige Batteries
*One Mountain Battery
 
'''First Infantry Brigade'''<br>
''Brig Gen R. Barter''
*2nd Battalion King's Royal Rifles
*15th Sikhs
*25th Punjabis
 
'''Second Infantry Brigade'''<br>
''Brig Gen W. Hughes''
*59th East Lancashire
*12th Kelat-i-Ghilzai Regt
*1st Gurkhas
*3rd Gurkhas
''
'''''2nd Division'''''<br>
''Maj Gen M A Biddulph''
 
'''Cavalry Brigade'''<br>
'''Brig Gen C. H. Palliser'''
*21st Daly's Horse
*22nd Sam Browne's Horse
*35th Scinde Horse
 
'''Artillery'''<br>
''Col Le Mesurier''
*One Field Battery
*Two Mountain Batteries
 
'''First Infantry'''<br>
''Brig Gen R. Lacy''
*70th East Surrey
*19th Punjabis
*127th Baluchis
 
'''Second Infantry Brigade'''<br>
''Brig Gen Nuttall''
*26th Punjabis
*32nd Pioneers
*55th Coke's Rifles
*129th Baluchis
 
[[Category:2nd Afghan War]]

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