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{{War|name=1st Afghan War |dates=1839-42 |image= |combatant1=[[East India Company]] |combatant2=Afghan tribes|result= <br>Disastrous defeat of first invasion<br>Qualified success of second invasion|medal=<br>[http://www.medals.org.uk/united-kingdom/united-kingdom105.htm Ghuznee 1839]<br>[http://www.medals.org.uk/united-kingdom/united-kingdom107.htm Jellalabad 1841-42]<br>[http://www.medals.org.uk/united-kingdom/united-kingdom108.htm Defence of Kelat-I-Ghilzie 1842]<br>[http://www.medals.org.uk/united-kingdom/united-kingdom106.htm Candahar]<br>[http://www.medals.org.uk/united-kingdom/united-kingdom106.htm Cabul and Ghuznee 1842-43]
|category=[[:Category:1st Afghan War|1st Afghan War]] |link1=[[:Category:Invasion of the HEIC Army|Invasion of the HEIC Army]]<br>[[:Category:General Sale's March from Kabul to Jalalabad|General Sale's March from Kabul to Jalalabad]]<br>[[:Category:Retreat from Kabul to Gandamak|Retreat from Kabul to Gandamak]]<br>[[:Category:The Withdrawal from Afghanistan|The Withdrawal from Afghanistan]]<br>[[:Category:The Army of Retribution March to Kabul|The Army of Retribution March to Kabul]]}}
{{Battlemap|war=Invasion of the HEIC Army|link=http://maps.google.co.uk/maps/ms?hl=en&ie=UTF8&msa=0&msid=101241150585833319689.00046bd195c704a6a89f1&ll=27.858504,71.762695&spn=28.148728,42.978516&t=p&z=5 }}
*[http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/First_Anglo-Afghan_War 1st Anglo-Afghan War] ''Wikipedia''
*[http://www.somerset.gov.uk/archives/sli/1afghan.htm 1st Afghan War 1839-42] ''Somerset Record Office''
*[http://www.acepilots.com/medals/brit-victorian1.html British Victorian War Medals] www.acepilots.com
===Historical books online===
*[http://books.google.co.uk/books?id=cpdJAAAAMAAJ&printsec=frontcover&dq=History+of+the+War+in+Afghanistan&as_brr=3&ei=lmaiSaWhOZjEM4nn4fAH#PPR1,M1 History of the War in Afghanistan Vol I (1800-1841)] by John William Kaye (1851)
