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== External Links ==
== External Links ==
[http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/First_Anglo-Afghan_War Wikipedia - 1st Afghan  War]<br>[http://www.somerset.gov.uk/archives/sli/1afghan.htm Somerset Record Office - 1st Afghan War]<br>[http://books.google.com/books?id=XiEPAAAAYAAJ&pg=PA285&dq=Istalif&ei=lk5_SMYxp_SLAfWnnPoK#PPA287,M1 Google Books - Action at Istalif]
[http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/First_Anglo-Afghan_War 1st Afghan  War] Wikipedia<br>
[http://www.somerset.gov.uk/archives/sli/1afghan.htm 1st Afghan War] Somerset Record Office<br>
[http://books.google.com/books?id=XiEPAAAAYAAJ&pg=PA285&dq=Istalif&ei=lk5_SMYxp_SLAfWnnPoK#PPA287,M1 Action at Istalif] Google Books<br>
[http://books.google.co.uk/books?id=GBsEAAAAQAAJ&pg=PA332&dq=Istalif+1842&cd=1#v=onepage&q=Istalif%201842&f=false McCaskill's despatch] Google Books


[[Category:1st Afghan War|Istalif, Battle of]]
[[Category:1st Afghan War|Istalif, Battle of]]
[[Category:The Army of Retribution March to Kabul|Istalif, Battle of]]
[[Category:The Army of Retribution March to Kabul|Istalif, Battle of]]

Revision as of 17:33, 8 April 2010

Battle of Istalif
Part of 1st Afghan War 1839-42
Date: 29 September 1842
Location: Estalef, Afghanistan
Presidency: Bengal
Co-ordinates: 34.833330°N 69.133330°E
Result: British victory
Combatants
British & Indians Various Afghan tribes
Commanders
Maj Gen George Pollock
Maj Gen John McCaskill
Amir Ullah Khan Loghuri
Strength
Casualties

Field Force

Artillery

  • Capt Backhouse's Mountain Train
  • Capt Blood's Battery of 9 pounders (Bombay)
  • Two 18 pounders

Cavalry

  • HQ and two squadrons HM Light Dragoons
  • Capt Christie's Corps of Cavalry

Infantry

  • Brig Tulloch's Brigade except 60th N.I.
  • Capt Broadfoot's Sappers and Miners
  • Brig Stacy's Brigade

External Links

1st Afghan War Wikipedia
1st Afghan War Somerset Record Office
Action at Istalif Google Books
McCaskill's despatch Google Books