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[http://www.heritage-history.com/www/heritage.php?Dir=wars&FileName=wars_afghan.php Afghan Wars] Heritage History<br>
[http://www.somerset.gov.uk/archives/sli/1afghan.htm 1st Afghan War] Somerset Record Office<br>
[http://www.jmhare.com/CentralAsia/history4.htm The Army of the Indus and the Advance to Kabul] www.jmhare.com
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'''This was an event during the [[1st Afghan War]]'''
== Synopsis ==
The Bombay Force of British and Indian troops under [http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/John_Keane,_1st_Baron_Keane [John Keane|Sir John Keane]] left by sea and disembarked at the mouth of the Indus at the end of November 1838.<br> The Bengal Army of British and Indian troops under [http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Willoughby_Cotton [Willoughby Cotton|Maj-Gen Sir Willoughby Cotton]] set out from [[Ferozepore]] 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 [http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Shuja_Shah_Durrani [Shah Shuja-ul-Mulk |Shah Shuja]] put on the throne.
==Related articles ==
|[[Battle of Kalat 1839|Battle of Kalat]]
|13 November 1839
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|[[Siege of Kahan]]
|11 May-29 September 1840
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|[[Fall of Kalat]]
|August 1840
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|[[Battle at Nuffoosk Pass]]
|31 August 1840
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|[[Battle of Bameean]]
*[[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]]
== External Links ==
[http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/First_Anglo-Afghan_War 1st Afghan War] Wikipedia<br>
==== Historical books on-line ====
