Category:Invasion of the HEIC Army

Summary

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.
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.
The Bombay Army reached Quetta on 20 April and joined the Bengal Army at Kandahar on 14 May.
The combined force took Ghazni in July. In August Kabul was reached and Shah Shuja put on the throne.

Itinerary

Bombay Force
1839

• 21 November Left Bombay
• 27 November Indus
• 24 December Left Hujamry
• 24 December Julalkote
• 25 December Sumarakote
• 26 December Kurreempore
• 27 December Thatta
  

1839

• 23 January Left Thatta
• 24 January Sadan
• 25 January Jerruck
• 3 February Left Jerruck
• 4 February Kotri
• 10 February Left Kotri
• Sun
• 15 February Aumry
• 16 February Lukky
• 17 February Sehwan
• 4 March Latkhanu
• 12 March Left Larkhanu
• 23 March Gundava
• 31 March Gajin
• 1 April Soony
• 5 April Dadur
• Bolan pass
• 20 April Quetta
• 21 April Kooslak
• Pishin
• 1 May Juktapole
• 14 May Kandahar

Bengal Army
1838

• 10 December Left Ferozpore

1839

• 27 January Reached Indus
• 10 February Left Rohri
• 16-20 February Shikarpur
• 23 February Left Shikarpur
• 24 February Janeedera
• 14 March Dadur
• 16 March Bolan Pass
• Sir-I-Aub
• 26 March Quetta
• 6 April Keane joins army
• Kooslak
• Kojak Pass
• 30 April Kandahar

Sir John Keane's Combined Army

British

• 4th Hussars now the Queen’s Royal Hussars
• 16th Lancers now the Queen’s Royal Lancers
• 2nd Regiment of Foot now the Queen's Royal Surrey Regiment
• 13th Regiment of Foot now the Somerset & Cornwall Light Infantry
• 17th Regiment of Foot, Royal Anglian Regiment (disbanded)
  

Indian

• 2nd Bengal Light Cavalry
• 3rd Bengal Light Cavalry
• 3rd Skinner’s Horse
• 31st Lancers
• 34th Poona Horse
• 3rd Sappers and Miners
• Shah Shujah’s Regiment
• 1st Bengal (European) Fusiliers later the Munster Fusiliers
• 2nd Bengal Native Infantry
• 16th Bengal Native Infantry
• 27th Bengal Native Infantry
• 31st Bengal Native Infantry
• 42nd Bengal Native Infantry
• 43rd Bengal Native Infantry
• 48th Bengal Native Infantry
• 19th Bombay Infantry later the 119th Multan Regiment

Indian Sappers and Miners

• 2nd Company, Bengal Sappers and Miners
• 3rd Company, Bengal Sappers and Miners
• 1st Company, Bombay Sappers and Miners

External Links

Wikipedia - 1st Afghan War
Heritage History - Afghan Wars
Somerset Record Office - 1st Afghan War
Google Books - History of the War in Afghanistan