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