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== External Links == | |||
[http://www.garenewing.co.uk/angloafghanwar/articles/kandahar_march.php Roberts' March] Garen Ewing Article | |||
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Revision as of 17:05, 30 August 2009
Summary
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Following the defeat at the Battle of Maiwand, Roberts set out on 7 August 1880 on a forced march from Kabul to relieve Kandahar. on 1 September Roberts defeated Yakub Khan at the Battle of Baba Wullee. General Stewart completed the evacuation of British troops from Kabul on 11 September and Brig-Gen Watson took remaining British forces out of Kurram 6-21 October. The last British units left Kandahar on 15 Aprill 1881.
Field Force from Kabul
Cavalry
Artillery
- 3 batteries Mountain Artillery
Infantry
- 2nd Battalion 60th Rifles
- 72nd (Duke of Albany’s) Highlanders
- 92nd (Gordon) Highlanders
- 15th Bengal Native Infantry
- 23rd Bengal Native Infantry
- 24th Bengal Native Infantry
- 25th Bengal Native Infantry
- 2nd Prince of Wales’s Own Gurkhas
- 4th Gurkhas
- 5th Gurkhas
- 2nd Sikh Infantry
- 3rd Sikh Infantry
External Links
Roberts' March Garen Ewing Article