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{{Battles_Infobox
|partof=[[:Category:1st Afghan War|1st Afghan War 1839-42]]
|date=14 & 15 October 1842
|location=Huft Kotul, Tezin-e Khas, Afghanistan
|presidency=[[Bengal]]
|combatant1=British & Indians
|combatant2=Ghilzai tribesmen
|commander1=Brig Gen Thomas Monteath<br>Gen William Nott
|commander2=
|strength1=
|strength2=
|casualties1=14 October 5 killed, 9 wounded<br>9 15 October 24 killed, 37 wounded
|casualties2=
}}
'''For context see main article [[The Withdrawal from Afghanistan]]'''
== Synopsis ==
On 14 October Brigadier Monteath commanding the rearguard of General Pollock's brigades retreated through the Huft Kotal (eight hills) under attack by the tribesmen. On 15 October General Nott's division made the same passage.
== Monteath's Rearguard==
== Historical books on-line ==
''Memorials of Affghanistan: being state papers, official documents" by Joachim Hayward Stocquele 1893 (Google Books)<br>[http://books.google.com/books?id=XiEPAAAAYAAJ&pg=PA291&dq=Memorials+of+Affghanistan+great+delay+created+by+the+captured+guns&cd=1#v=onepage&q&f=false Monteath's despatch] (Google Books)<br>[http://books.google.com/books?id=XiEPAAAAYAAJ&pg=PA295&dq=Memorials+of+Affghanistan+sent+200+sepoys+and+a+wing+of+her&cd=1#v=onepage&q&f=false Nott's despatch]<br>
[[Category:1st Afghan War|Huft Kotal, Action at]]
[[Category:The Withdrawal from Afghanistan|Huft Kotal, Action at]]
[[Category:Battles|Huft Kotal, Action at]]
