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'''This was an event during the [[1st Afghan War]]'''== Summary Synopsis ==The Bombay Force of British and Indian troops under [[John Keane|Sir John Keane ]] left by sea at the end of November and disembarked at the mouth of the Indus at the end of November 1838.<br> The Bengal Army of British and Indian troops under [[Willoughby Cotton|Maj-Gen Sir Willoughby Cotton ]] set out from [[FerozporeFerozepore]] in the Punjab in December 1838. It reached [[Quetta]] at the end of March 1839 where Sir John Keane from the Bombay Force took command. At the end of April the army reached [[Kandahar]] which was taken without a battle.<br>
The Bombay Army reached [[Quetta]] on 20 April and joined the Bengal Army at [[Kandahar]] on 14 May.<br>
The combined force took [[Ghazni]] in July. In August [[Kabul]] was reached and [[Shah Shuja -ul-Mulk |Shah Shuja]] put on the throne. ==Related articles ==For further details of events during this period see the following articles{||[[Occupation of Kandahar]]|25 April 1839|-|[[Storming of Ghazni]]|23 July 1839|-|[[Wade's Expedition to Kabul]]|27 July-3 September 1839|-|[[Battle of Kalat 1839|Battle of Kalat]]|13 November 1839|-|[[Siege of Kahan]]|11 May-29 September 1840|-|[[Fall of Kalat]]|August 1840|-|[[Battle at Nuffoosk Pass]]|31 August 1840|-|[[Battle of Bameean]]|18 September 1840|-|[[Battle of Purwandurrah]]|2 November 1840|}
== Itinerary ==
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'''Bombay Force'''<br>
*27 November Indus
*24 December Left Hujamry
*25 December Sumarakote
*26 December Kurreempore
*27 December [[Thatta]]<br>
1839
*23 January Left Thatta
*24 January Sadan
*25 January [[Jerruck]]
*3 February Left Jerruck
*4 February [[Kotri]]
*10 February Left Kotri
*Sun
*15 February Aumry
*16 February Lukky
*17 February [[Sehwan]]*4 March [[Latkhanu]]
*12 March Left Larkhanu
*23 March Gundava
*1 April Soony
*5 April Dadur
*[[Bolan Pass|Bolan pass]]
*20 April Quetta
*21 April Kooslak
*[[Pishin]]
*1 May Juktapole
*14 May Kandahar
'''Bengal Army'''<br>
1838
*10 December Left Ferozpore[[Ferozepore]]
1839<br>
*27 January Reached Indus
*10 February Left [[Rohri]]*16-20 February [[Shikarpur]]
*23 February Left Shikarpur
*24 February Janeedera
*14 March [[Dadar|Dadur]]
*16 March Bolan Pass
*Sir-I-Aub
*6 April Keane joins army
*Kooslak
*[[Khojak Pass|Kojak Pass]]
*30 April Kandahar<br>
*23 July Stormed Ghazni
* 7 August Shah Shujah enters Kabul
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== Sir John Keane's Combined Army ==
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'''British'''<br>
*[[4th Hussars]] now the Queen’s Royal Hussars*[[16th Lancers]] now the Queen’s Royal Lancers*[[2nd Regiment of Foot]] now the Queen's Royal Surrey Regiment*[[13th Regiment of Foot]] now the Somerset & Cornwall Light Infantry*[[17th Regiment of Foot]], Royal Anglian Regiment (disbanded)<br>
'''Indian'''<br>
*[[2nd Bengal Light Cavalry]]
*[[3rd Bengal Light Cavalry]]
*3rd [[Skinner’s Skinner's Horse]]
*[[31st Duke of Connaught's Own Lancers|31st Lancers]]
*34th [[Poona Horse]]
*3rd [[Bengal Sappers and Miners|Sappers and Miners]]
*[[12th (Khelat-i-Ghilzie) Bengal Infantry|Shah Shujah’s Regiment]]
*[[1st Bengal (European) Fusiliers]] later the Munster Fusiliers
*[[2nd Bengal Native Infantry]]
*[[16th (Lucknow) Regiment of Rajput Infantry|16th Bengal Native Infantry]]
*[[6th Regiment of Jat Light Infantry|43rd Bengal Native Infantry]]
*[[48th Regiment of Bengal Native Infantry|48th Bengal Native Infantry]]
*[[19th Regiment of Bombay Infantry|19th Bombay Infantry]] later the 119th Multan Regiment
'''Indian Sappers and Miners'''<br>
*2nd CompanyCoy, [[Bengal Sappers and Miners]]*3rd CompanyCoy, [[Bengal Sappers and Miners]]*1st CompanyCoy, [[Bombay Sappers and Miners]]</div>
== External Links ==
[http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/First_Anglo-Afghan_War Wikipedia - 1st Afghan War]Wikipedia<br>[http://www.heritage ==== Historical books on-history.com/www/heritage.php?Dirline ===wars&FileName=wars_afghan.php Heritage History - Afghan Wars]<br>[http://www.somerset.gov.uk/archives/sli/1afghan.htm Somerset Record Office - 1st Afghan War]<br>[http://books.google.co.ukcom/books?id=IBEWAAAAMAAJcpdJAAAAMAAJ&pgprintsec=PAifrontcover&dq=Brigadierlabel:%221st+Sheltonafghan+war%22#v=onepage&as_brr=1q&eif=AFrOR-P0DJXOywT8goiwBQ#PPR1,M1 Google Books - false ''History of the War in AfghanistanVol 1'']by John William Kaye 1851 (Google Books)[[Category:1st Afghan War| Invasion of the HEIC Army]]
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