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|commander1=[http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Claude_Martin_Wade Lt-Col Claude Wade]<br>Shahzadeh Muhammad Timur
|commander1=[http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Claude_Martin_Wade Lt-Col Claude Wade]<br>Shahzadeh Muhammad Timur
|commander2=[http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Akbar_Khan Mohammad Akbar Khan]
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[[Image:Ali Musjid Fort.jpg|thumb|right|350px|Ali Musjid Fort]]


'''This was the only action during [[Wade's Expedition to Kabul]]'''
'''This was the only action during [[Wade's Expedition to Kabul]]'''
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== External Links ==
== External Links ==
[http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/First_Anglo-Afghan_War 1st Afghan  War] Wikipedia<br>
[http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/First_Anglo-Afghan_War 1st Afghan  War] Wikipedia<br>
[http://www.heritage-history.com/www/heritage.php?Dir=wars&FileName=wars_afghan.php Afghan Wars] Heritage History<br>
[http://www.somerset.gov.uk/archives/sli/1afghan.htm 1st Afghan War] Somerset Record Office<br>
[http://books.google.co.uk/books?id=cpdJAAAAMAAJ&printsec=frontcover&dq=History+of+the+War+in+Afghanistan&as_brr=3&ei=lmaiSaWhOZjEM4nn4fAH#PPA468,M1  Seizure of Ali Masjid Fort] Google Books<br>
[http://books.google.co.uk/books?id=cpdJAAAAMAAJ&printsec=frontcover&dq=History+of+the+War+in+Afghanistan&as_brr=3&ei=lmaiSaWhOZjEM4nn4fAH#PPA468,M1  Seizure of Ali Masjid Fort] Google Books<br>
[http://www.google.co.uk/imgres?imgurl=http://www.panoramio.com/photos/original/23002776.jpg&imgrefurl=http://www.panoramio.com/photo/23002776&usg=__y67pwhwnQJkqwqIgE8DO8roeHt8=&h=2120&w=2816&sz=1424&hl=en&start=13&um=1&itbs=1&tbnid=ZiG_L3iVSWnp4M:&tbnh=113&tbnw=150&prev=/images%3Fq%3DAli%2BMasjid%26um%3D1%26hl%3Den%26client%3Dsafari%26sa%3DX%26rls%3Den%26tbs%3Disch:1 View of fort] panoramio.com<br>
[https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:Ali_Masjid_fort_-_franek2.jpg View of fort] Wikimedia Commons.<br>
[http://www.oxforddnb.com/index/101028376/ Sir Claude Martine Wade] ODNB
 


[[Category:Battles|Ali Masjid Fort, Occupation of]]
[[Category:Battles|Ali Masjid Fort, Occupation of]]
[[Category:1st Afghan War|Ali Masjid Fort, Occupation of]]
[[Category:1st Afghan War|Ali Masjid Fort, Occupation of]]

Latest revision as of 07:20, 13 March 2021

Occupation of Ali Masjid Fort
Part of 1st Afghan War 1839-42
Date: 27 July 1839
Location: Ali Masjid, Khyber Pass, NWF
Presidency: Bengal
Co-ordinates: 34.028338°N 71.262046°E
Result: British occupation
Combatants
British, Afghan levies & Sikhs Afghan army
Commanders
Lt-Col Claude Wade
Shahzadeh Muhammad Timur 		Mohammad Akbar Khan
Strength
11,000
Casualties
Ali Musjid Fort

This was the only action during Wade's Expedition to Kabul

Wade's Expeditionary Force

  • 380 Company troops
  • 4,000 Shahzadeh Timur's Afghan levies
  • 6,000 Nao Nahal Singh's Sikh troops

External Links

1st Afghan War Wikipedia
Seizure of Ali Masjid Fort Google Books
View of fort Wikimedia Commons.

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