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|partof=[[:Category:2nd Afghan War|2nd Afghan War 1878-80]]
|date=2 April 1879
|location=FuttehabadPoshtehā-i Fateḩābād, Jalalabad, Afghanistan
|presidency=[[Bengal]]
|co-ordinates=[http://maps.google.co.uk/maps?ll=36http://maps.766224google.co.uk/maps?ll=34.354168,6570.784666295028&z=89&t=h&hl=en approx 3634.76622°N 65354168°N 70.784666°E295028°E]
|result=British victory
|territory=
|combatant1=British & Indians
|combatant2=Various Afghan tribes
|commander1=[http://wwwen.oxforddnbwikipedia.comorg/index/101033490wiki/ Charles_John_Stanley_Gough Brig Gen Hugh Sir Charles GoughCB VC]|commander2= unknown tribal leaders|strength1=1,000|strength2=5,000|casualties1=6 killed & 40 wounded|casualties2=300 killed & 900 wounded
}}
== Summary ==
The Peshawar Field Force spent the winter of 1878 at [[Jalalabad]]. Receiving intelligence of gathering groups of tribesmen, General [[Sam Browne]] sent out three forces at the end of March 1879. Two squadrons of cavalry under Brig-Gen Herbert Macpherson suffered a disaster crossing the Kabul river when 122 men were swept away. The second force failed to surprise the Afghans and returned without having met the enemy. The third force under [[Charles Gough|Brig-Gen Sir Charles Gough]] engaged 5,000 Kugiani tribesmen defending a stone breastwork. The cavalry charged then retreated drawing the Afghans forward past waiting infantry who opened a destructive fire routing the enemy. [[The Fighting Battyes|Major Wigram Battye]] was killed in the action and Lieut Walter Hamilton won the VC.
== Gough's Field Force ==
*[[10th Dragoons|10th Hussars]]
*[[11th (The Prince of Wales's Own) Bengal Lancers|11th Probyn's Lancers]]
*[[Corps of Guides, Punjab Irregular Force|Guides Cavalry]]
*[[17th Regiment of Foot|The Leicestershire Regiment]]
*[[The Rifle Brigade]]
*[[8th Regiment of Punjab Infantry|20th Brownlow's Punjabis]]
*[[27th Regiment of Punjab Infantry|27th Punjabis]]
*[[45th Regiment of Sikh Infantry|45th Sikhs]]
*[[4th Gurkha Rifles|4th Gurkhas]]
*[[Bengal Sappers and Miners]]
*[[Royal Horse Artillery]]
*[[Hazara Mountain Battery]]
== External Links ==
[http://www.britishempire.co.uk/forces/armycampaigns/indiancampaigns/campafghan1878.htm The British Empire - 2nd Afghan War 1878-80]The British Empire<br>[http://www.britishbattles.com/second-afghan-war/futtehabad.htm The Battle of Futtehabad] BritishBattles.com <br />[http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Walter_Richard_Pollock_Hamilton#External_links Hamilton's VC] Wikipedia<br />[http://books.google.co.uk/books?id=XrINV_uzJHcC&pg=PA27&dq=Battye+India&hl=en&ei=WRlNTbqgCMGGhQe5j8SoDg&sa=X&oi=book_result&ct=result&resnum=7&ved=0CEkQ6AEwBg#v=onepage&q&f=false Walter Hamilton and the death of Wigram Battye] Google Books ==== Historical books on- line ====[http://www.archive.org/stream/afghanwargoughs00swyngoog#page/n10/mode/2up ''The Battle of Afghan War: Gough's Action at Futtehabad'']by Rev C Swinerton 1880 (archive.com)
== Recommended Reading ==
"''Road to Kabul''" by Brian Robson 1986 ISBN 1862271968
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