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*[http://warandgame.com/2008/02/04/colonial-control-on-a-shoestring-the-raf-experience/ Colonial Control On A Shoestring — The RAF Experience] by Maj Michael J. Petersen includes a section "The Third Afghan War and the Northwest Frontier, 1919-1920" Warandgame.com  
*[http://warandgame.com/2008/02/04/colonial-control-on-a-shoestring-the-raf-experience/ Colonial Control On A Shoestring — The RAF Experience] by Maj Michael J. Petersen includes a section "The Third Afghan War and the Northwest Frontier, 1919-1920" Warandgame.com  
*[http://www.25thlondon.com/afghan.htm Third Afghan War - 1919] from [http://www.25thlondon.com/index.htm 25th County of London Cyclist Battalion: The London Regiment]
*[http://www.25thlondon.com/afghan.htm Third Afghan War - 1919] from [http://www.25thlondon.com/index.htm 25th County of London Cyclist Battalion: The London Regiment]
===Historical books online===
*[http://www.london-gazette.co.uk/issues/31823/supplements/3271 "Operations against Afghanistan"] ''London Gazette Supplement'' 12  March 1920


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Summary

3rd Afghan War
6 May – 8 August 1919
Chronological list of Wars and Campaigns
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Location: Afghanistan
Combatants:
British Army Afghan regular forces
Result:
British subsidy dicontinued
Afghans regained control of foreign policy
Border with British India confirmed
Medals:
India General Service Medal (1909)
Clasp:Afghanistan NWF 1919
Links:
Category: 3rd Afghan War

Hoping to regain control of foreign policy ceded to the British at the Treaty of Gandamak 1879 and to divert attention from internal strife, Amir Amanullah Khan invaded India on 3 May 1919. Military action took place mostly in the Khyber Pass but Kabul was bombed by the Royal Air Force and the Afghans attacked Thal. The Afghan forces were driven from British Indian territory and the Treaty of Rawalpindi on 8 August ended the British subsidy to Afghanistan which regained the right to conduct its own foreign affairs. The Durand Line defining the border between Afghanistan and the North West Frontier was re-affirmed.

British Library holdings

  • The Third Afghan War 1919 Official Account, with maps, by General Staff, Army Headquarters, India, published 1926 Calcutta. A reprint of this book may be bought through Amazon.co.uk from the FIBIS Shop

External Links

Historical books online