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'''Taylor's Detachment'''* Four coys 38th Bengal Native Infantry (400 men)*Two rissalahs One wing Shah's 1st Cavalry*A party of Bengal Local Horse under Lieut Walker*Detachment of Infantry under Capt Codington<br>'''Anderson's Detachment'''Leeson*HM 5th Regiment under Capt Woodburn21 Sappers and Miners*2nd Troop 2 guns Horse Artillery (4 guns)
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|partof=[[:Category:1st Afghan War|1st Afghan War 1839-42]]
|date=29 May 1841
|location=Asseer, 12 miles south of Khelat-i-Ghilzie, [http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Zabul_Province Qalat,_Zabul_Province Qalat], Zabul Province], [[Afghanistan]]
|presidency=[[Bengal]]
|co-ordinates=[http://maps.google.co.uk/maps?ll=31.987347,66.763315&z=14&t=h&hl=en 31.987347°N 66.763315°E]
|combatant1=British & Indians
|combatant2=Ghilzai tribesmen
|commander1=[http://www.archive.org/stream/dictionaryofindi00buckuoft#page/462/mode/1up/search/Wymer Lt-Col George Wymer]|commander2=Gool Mahomed|strength1=1,200|strength2=23,500000|casualties1=4 killed<br>15 wounded|casualties2=200
}}
== Synopsis ==
Major Lynch the political officer at Khelat-i-Ghilzie instigated an attack on a Ghilai fort in which the chief and 15 men were killed. This precipitated a rising of the Ghilzais. Colonel Wymer set out from Kandahar with stores for Khelat-i-Ghilzie and met tthe enemy force about twelve miles short of that place. After a three hour battle the Ghilzais were defeated.
== Field Force ==
== External Links ==
[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.co.uk/books?id=XiEPAAAAYAAJ&pg=PA96PA150&dq=TazeeMemorials+1840of+Affghanistan:+Subjoined+is+Colonel+Wymer's+own+account&as_brr=3&cd=51#v=onepage&q&f=false Battle of TazeeColonel Wymer's despatch] (Google Books)<br>[http://books.google.co.uk/books?id=lcwNAAAAIAAJ&pg=PA328&dq=Tazee+1840&as_brr=3&cd=9#v=onepage&q=Tazee%201840&f=false Battle of Tazee] Google Books
==== Historical books on-line ====
[http://wwwbooks.archivegoogle.orgco.uk/stream/memoirsandcorre00nottgoogbooks?id=LNINAAAAIAAJ&pg=PA590&dq=History+of+the+war+in+Afghanistan,+And+as+the+Douranees+were+mustering+their+men,&cd=1#page/n196/mode/2up v=onepage&q&f=false ''Memoirs and Corresponence History of Major-General Sir William Nott GCB the War in Afghanistan Vol I(1800-1841)'' - Action Battle at TazeeAssiai-Ilmee] by J H Stocqueler 1854 (archive.org)] by J H Stocqueler 1854 John William Kaye (Google Books1851)
[[Category:1st Afghan War|Asseer Eelmee, Battle of]]
[[Category:General Nott at Kandahar|Asseer Eelmee, Battle of]]
[[Category:Battles|Asseer Eelmee, Battle of]]
