Moplah Uprising
Summary
| Moplah Uprising | |
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| 1921-22 | |
| Chronological list of Wars and Campaigns | |
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| Location: Malabar | |
| Combatants: | |
| British Army | Afghan regular forces |
| Result: Uprising quelled | |
| Medals: India General Service Medal (1909) Clasp:Malabar 1921-22 | |
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| Category: 3rd Afghan War | |
Hoping to regain control of foreign policy ceded to the British at the Treaty of Gandamak 1879 and to divert attention from internal strife, Amir Amanullah Khan invaded India on 3 May 1919. Military action took place mostly in the Khyber Pass but Kabul was bombed by the Royal Air Force and the Afghans attacked Thal. The Afghan forces were driven from British Indian territory and the Treaty of Rawalpindi on 8 August ended the British subsidy to Afghanistan which regained the right to conduct its own foreign affairs. The Durand Line defining the border between Afghanistan and the North West Frontier was re-affirmed.
External Links
- Map of the Third Afghan War Military Times
- Third Anglo-Afghan War Wikipedia
- Third Anglo-Afghan War Google Books
- 2/153rd Punjabis in the 3rd Afghan War www.king-emperor.com
- Asymmetry in Afghanistan - the poison gas option The Serving Soldier website
- The Third Afghan War Taken from the New Statesman archive, 16 August 1919.
- Colonial Control On A Shoestring — The RAF Experience by Maj Michael J. Petersen includes a section "The Third Afghan War and the Northwest Frontier, 1919-1920" Warandgame.com
