1st Afghan War Timeline

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THE INVASION
1838
16 July Simla Manifesto
21 November Bombay Army left Bombay
10 December Bengal Army left Ferozepore
1839
25 April Bengal Army occupied Kandahar
14 May Bombay Army reached Kandahar
27 June Combined Army left Kandahar
23 July Gen Keane stormed Ghazni
27 July Col Wade took Ali Masjid Fort
7 August Shah Shuja entered Kabul
3 September Col Wade & Muhammad Timur entered Kabul
18 September Bombay Division left Kabul for the Bolan Pass
15 October Bengal Division left Kabul for theKhyber Pas Pass
13 November Gen Willshire captured Kalat
1840
18 September Dost Mohammed defeated at Bameean
2 November Dost Mohammed defeated the British at Purwandurrah
4 November Dost Mohammed surrendered and was exiled to India
THE OCCUPATION
1841
9 October Sale left Kabul for Jalalabad
11 October Sale forced the Khoord-Kabul Pass
22 October Sale's action at Tezin
29 October Sale's action at Jugdulluk
30 October Sale's action at Gundamak
2 November Start of the Kabul Uprising
4 November Loss of Kabul commissariat fort
10 November Storming of the Rika-bashi Fort Kabul
12 November Sale besieged in Jalalabad
13 November British driven from Charikar
20 November Shams-ud-Din besieged Ghazni
23 November British defeated at Bemaru
23 December William Macnaghten murdered
THE RETREAT
1842
6 January Elphinstone's army left Kabul
7 January Advance to Boothak
8 January Massacre in Khoord Kabul Pass
10 January Massacre at Tunghi Tarika
11 January Further losses at Jugdulluk
12 January Retreat from Jugdulluk
12 January Atta Mohammed Khan defeated at Killu-l-Shah
6 March Ghazni surrendered to Shams-ud-Din
9 March Khelat-i-Ghilzai besieged
25 March Afghans defeated at Baba Wullee
THE RETURN
1842
28 March Gen England defeated at Hykulzye
5 April Pollock's army forced the Khyber Pass
8 April Sale defeated the Afghans at Jalalabad
14 April Pollock's army reached Jalalabad
26 April Gen. England left Quetta for Kandahar
10 May Gen. England's force reached Kandahar
21 May Khelat-i-Ghilzai relieved
29 May Aktar Khan defeated outside Kandahar
9 August Gen. Nott left Kandahar for Kabul
24 August Hadji Ali defeated at Mamoo Khail
28 August Shams-ud-Din defeated at Mookoor
30 August Shams-ud-Din defeated at Ghoaine
6 September General Nott captured Ghazni
8 September Akbar Khan defeated at Jugdulluk Crest
8 September Afghans defeated at Mazeena
12 September Akbar Khan defeated at Huft Kotal
14 September Shams-ud-Din defeated at Benee Budam
15 September Pollock's army reached Kabul
15 September Shams-ud-Din defeated at Maidan
29 September Afghans defeated at Istalif
12 October Pollock's army left Kabul