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Amend summary, Commander 2
|territory=
|combatant1=British & Indians
|combatant2=Various Afghan tribes garrison
|commander1=[http://www.oxforddnb.com/index/101015207/ Lieut Gen Sir John Keane]
|commander2=[http://encommons.wikipediawikimedia.org/wiki/Dost_Mohammed_Khan Dost Mohammed File:Hyder_Khan_of_Ghazni_in_1939-42.jpg Ghulam Hyder Khan]
|strength1=9,500 Bengal Army<br>5,000 Bombay Army<br>6,000 Shah Shujah's Army
|strength2=3,500 garrison
|casualties1=18 officers, 162 other ranks killed & wounded
|casualties2=500 killed<br>1,600 prisoners
}}
== Summary ==
The Combined Army under Sir John Keane set out for Kabul from Kandahar and reached Ghazni on 21 July 1839. At three o'clock in the morning on 23 July a firing party led by [http://www.oxforddnb.com/index/101008307/ Lt Henry Durand] blew in the Kabul Gate of the Ghazni fortress. Storming parties led by [http://www.oxforddnb.com/index/101007501/ Col William Dennie] and [http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Robert_Henry_Sale Brig Robert Sale] took the city then captured the citadel.
== Storming Forces ==
*[[4th Hussars|4th (The Queen's Own) Regiment of (Light) Dragoons]]*[[16th Lancers|16th (The Queen's) Regiment of (Light) Dragoons (Lancers)]]
*[[2nd Regiment of Foot]]
*[[13th Regiment of Foot]]
*[[Poona Horse|34th Poona Horse]]
*Shah Shujah’s Regiment
*[[1st Bengal (European) Fusiliers (|1st Bengal European Regiment)]]*[[16th Regiment of Bengal Native Infantry|16th Bengal Native Infantry]]*[[48th Regiment of Bengal Native Infantry|48th Bengal Native Infantry]]*[[31st Regiment of Bengal Native Infantry|31st Bengal Native Infantry]]*[[42nd Regiment of Bengal Native Infantry|42nd Bengal Native Infantry]]*[[43rd Regiment of Bengal Native Infantry|43rd Bengal Native Infantry]]*[[2nd Regiment of Bengal Native Infantry|2nd Bengal Native Infantry]]*[[27th Regiment of Bengal Native Infantry|27th Bengal Native Infantry]]*[[119th Infantry (The Mooltan Regiment)|19th Bombay Infantry]]*2nd Company, [[Bengal Sappers and Miners]]*3rd Company, [[Bengal Sappers and Miners]]*1st Company, [[Bombay Sappers and Miners ]]
== Biographies ==
