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*[http://www.nam.ac.uk/collection/collection-news/your-paintings/captain-colin-mackenzie#hotspot2 Portrait: Captain Colin Mackenzie (1806-61), Madras Army, Lately a Hostage in Caubool, in His Affghan Dress, c1842] National Army Museum
== External Links links ==
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*[http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/First_Anglo-Afghan_War 1st Anglo-Afghan War] Wikipedia
*[http://www.jmhare.com/CentralAsia/history3.htm The First Afghan War - Disaster for the British] www.jmhare.com
*[http://www.acepilots.com/medals/brit-victorian1.html British Victorian War Medals] www.acepilots.com
*Listen to [https://media.nationalarchives.gov.uk/index.php/the-first-afghan-war/ 1st Afghan War] - a Lecture by Jules Stewart, journalist and historian, 17 September 2010. National Archives podcast series.
*Listen to an [http://www.abc.net.au/local/stories/2013/05/20/3763221.htm interview] with author William Dalrymple as he discusses the 1st Afghan War with the ABC’s Richard Glover on 20 May 2013. (21:53 minutes) www.abc.net.au
 
====Map====
*[http://dsal.uchicago.edu/reference/gaz_atlas_1909/fullscreen.html?object=53 Map of Afghanistan] Imperial Gazetteer Atlas 1909
====Historical books online====
*''Five Years in India: Comprising a Narrative of Travels in the Presidency of Bengal, a Visit to the Court of Runjeet Sing, Residence in the Himalayah Mountains, an Account of the Late Expedition to Cabul and Affghanistan, Voyage Down the Indus, and Journey Overland to England'' by Henry Edward Fane, late Aide-de-Camp to his Excellency the Commander-In-Chief in India. [https://archive.org/details/fiveyearsinindiavol1 Volume I], [https://archive.org/details/fiveyearsinindi00fanegoog Volume II] 1842 Archive.org. The author travelled with his regiment to Ceylon in 1835, where he was soon appointed to the staff of his uncle, General Sir Henry Fane, who was Commander-In-Chief in India
*[https://archive.org/stream/memoirofmajorgen00rawlrich#page/70/mode/2up "Memoir of Major-General Sir Henry Creswicke Rawlinson"] Chapter VI archive.org
*[https://archive.org/details/beyondkhyberpass0000wall ''Beyond the Khyber Pass : the road to British disaster in the First Afghan War''] by John H. Waller 1990. Archive.org Lending Library. Also available as a pdf download, [http://pahar.in/wpfb-file/1990-beyond-the-khyber-pass-by-john-waller-s-pdf/ PAHAR Mountains of Central Asia Digital Dataset]. If the download button does not display, locate under Books/Afghanistan.
*[http://pahar.in/wpfb-file/1993-afghan-wars-1839-1992-what-britain-gave-up-and-the-soviet-union-lost-by-oballance-s-pdf/ ''Afghan Wars 1839-1992– what Britain gave up and the Soviet Union lost''] by Edgar O'Ballance 1993. Pdf download, PAHAR Mountains of Central Asia Digital Dataset. If the download button does not display, locate under Books/ Afghanistan.
*Fiction
**[https://archive.org/details/clevelysahibtale00haye ''Clevely Sahib: A Tale of the Khyber Pass''] by Herbert Hayens 1897 Archive.org
**[https://archive.org/details/flashman00geor/page/n3 ''Flashman : from the Flashman papers 1839-1842''] by George MacDonald Fraser 1984 edition, first published 1969. Archive.org Lending Library. Flashman in the 1st Afghan War.
*:[https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_Flashman_Papers The Flashman Papers] Wikipedia.
 
====Map====
[http://dsal.uchicago.edu/reference/gaz_atlas_1909/fullscreen.html?object=53 Map of Afghanistan] Imperial Gazetteer Atlas 1909
 
====Podcast====
[http://media.nationalarchives.gov.uk/index.php/the-first-afghan-war/ 1st Afghan War - Lecture by Jules Stewart] National Archives
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