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| == Summary ==
| | '''For details see [[Invasion of the HEIC Army]] in the [[1st Afghan War]]''' |
| The Bombay Force of British and Indian troops under Sir John Keane left by sea at the end of November and disembarked at the mouth of the Indus at the end of November 1838.<br>
| | [[Category:1st Afghan War| Invasion of the HEIC Army]] |
| The Bengal Army of British and Indian troops under Sir Willoughby Cotton set out from [[Ferozpore]] in the Punjab in December 1838. It reached [[Quetta]] at the end of March 1839 where Sir John Keane from the Bombay Force took command. At the end of April the army reached [[Kandahar]] which was taken without a battle.<br>
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| The Bombay Army reached [[Quetta]] on 20 April and joined the Bengal Army at [[Kandahar]] on 14 May.<br>
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| The combined force took [[Ghazni]] in July. In August [[Kabul]] was reached and Shah Shuja put on the throne.
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| == Itinerary ==
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| '''Bombay Force'''<br>
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| 1839
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| *21 November Left Bombay
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| *27 November Indus
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| *24 December Left Hujamry
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| *24 December Julalkote
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| *25 December Sumarakote
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| *26 December Kurreempore
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| *27 December Thatta<br>
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| 1839
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| *23 January Left Thatta
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| *24 January Sadan
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| *25 January Jerruck
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| *3 February Left Jerruck
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| *4 February Kotri
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| *10 February Left Kotri
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| *Sun
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| *15 February Aumry
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| *16 February Lukky
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| *17 February Sehwan
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| *4 March Latkhanu
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| *12 March Left Larkhanu
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| *23 March Gundava
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| *31 March Gajin
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| *1 April Soony
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| *5 April Dadur
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| *Bolan pass
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| *20 April Quetta
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| *21 April Kooslak
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| *Pishin
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| *1 May Juktapole
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| *14 May Kandahar
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| '''Bengal Army'''<br>
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| 1838
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| *10 December Left Ferozpore
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| 1839<br>
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| *27 January Reached Indus
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| *10 February Left Rohri
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| *16-20 February Shikarpur
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| *23 February Left Shikarpur
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| *24 February Janeedera
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| *14 March Dadur
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| *16 March Bolan Pass
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| *Sir-I-Aub
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| *26 March Quetta
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| *6 April Keane joins army
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| *Kooslak
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| *Kojak Pass
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| *30 April Kandahar
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| == Sir John Keane's Combined Army ==
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| '''British'''<br> | |
| *[[4th Hussars]] now the Queen’s Royal Hussars
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| *[[16th Lancers]] now the Queen’s Royal Lancers
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| *[[2nd Regiment of Foot]] now the Queen's Royal Surrey Regiment
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| *[[13th Regiment of Foot]] now the Somerset & Cornwall Light Infantry
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| *[[17th Regiment of Foot]], Royal Anglian Regiment (disbanded)<br>
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| '''Indian'''<br>
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| *[[2nd Bengal Light Cavalry]]
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| *[[3rd Bengal Light Cavalry]]
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| *3rd [[Skinner’s Horse]]
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| *[[31st Duke of Connaught's Own Lancers|31st Lancers]]
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| *34th [[Poona Horse]]
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| *3rd [[Bengal Sappers and Miners|Sappers and Miners]]
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| *Shah Shujah’s Regiment
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| *[[1st Bengal (European) Fusiliers]] later the Munster Fusiliers
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| *[[2nd Bengal Native Infantry]]
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| *[[16th (Lucknow) Regiment of Rajput Infantry|16th Bengal Native Infantry]]
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| *27th Bengal Native Infantry
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| *[[2nd Regiment of Rajput Infantry|31st Bengal Native Infantry]]
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| *42nd Bengal Native Infantry
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| *[[6th Regiment of Jat Light Infantry|43rd Bengal Native Infantry]]
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| *[[48th Regiment of Bengal Native Infantry|48th Bengal Native Infantry]]
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| *[[19th Regiment of Bombay Infantry|19th Bombay Infantry]] later the 119th Multan Regiment
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| '''Indian Sappers and Miners'''<br>
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| *2nd Company, [[Bengal Sappers and Miners]]
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| *3rd Company, [[Bengal Sappers and Miners]]
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| *1st Company, [[Bombay Sappers and Miners]]
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| == External Links ==
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| [http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/First_Anglo-Afghan_War Wikipedia - 1st Afghan War]<br>[http://www.heritage-history.com/www/heritage.php?Dir=wars&FileName=wars_afghan.php Heritage History - Afghan Wars]<br>[http://www.somerset.gov.uk/archives/sli/1afghan.htm Somerset Record Office - 1st Afghan War]<br>[http://books.google.co.uk/books?id=IBEWAAAAMAAJ&pg=PAi&dq=Brigadier+Shelton&as_brr=1&ei=AFrOR-P0DJXOywT8goiwBQ#PPR1,M1 Google Books - History of the War in Afghanistan]
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| [[Category:1st Afghan War]]
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