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{{Battles_Infobox
|partof=[[:Category:1st Afghan War|1st Afghan War 1839-42]]
|date=15-23 24 January 1842
|location=[[Ali Masjid]], Khyber Pass, NWF
|presidency=[[Bengal]]
Brigadier Wild decided to relieve the garrison and determined to set out from [[Jamrud]] on 19 January. The Sikh auxiliaries however mutinied and returned to Peshawar. The sepoys were young soldiers who had been told of the horrors of the Khyber Pass by the Sikhs. Nevertheless Wild advanced with two regiments and the Sikh guns. At the entrance to the pass they encountered fire from the Afridi tribesmen and refused to go forward. The Sikh guns broke down and Brigadier Wild, wounded in the face, was forced to withdraw to Jamrud.
The troops at the fort were on half rations and without bedding and tents. Morale began to deteriorate and Col Moseley decided to withdraw. Both Capt Burt and Capt Thomas of the 64th BNI both volunteered to remain but neither the sepoys nor the Afghan levies could not be persuaded. On 23 24 January the garrison left and Wild's force advanced to assist the retreat. This they accomplished under sustained attack by the Afridis and the fort fell once again to the enemy.
== Moseley's Force ==
