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{{Battles_Infobox
|partof=[[:Category:1st Afghan War|1st Afghan War 1839-42]]
|date=12 & 13 September 1842
|location=Huft Kotul, Tezin-e Khas, Afghanistan
|presidency=[[Bengal]]
|co-ordinates=[http://maps.google.co.uk/maps?ll=34.35,69.55&z=9&t=h&hl=en 34.350002°N 69.549388°E]
|result=British losses
|territory=
|combatant1=British & Indians
|combatant2=Ghilzai tribesmen
|commander1=[http://www.oxforddnb.com/index/101024533/ Maj Gen Sir Robert Sale]
|commander2=
|strength1=
|strength2=
|casualties1=
|casualties2=
}}
== Synopsis ==
Sale' brigade left Khoord-Kabul on 22 October and wound through a narrow pass for 17 miles before emerging into the valley of Tezin. There the advance guard encountered a significant Afghan force which they pushed back into the hills. Meanwhile as the rearguard came out of the pass it was attacked and a quantity of baggage and ammunition lost.
== External Links ==
[http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/First_Anglo-Afghan_War Wikipedia - 1st Afghan War]<br>[http://www.somerset.gov.uk/archives/sli/1afghan.htm Somerset Record Office - 1st Afghan War]<br>
== Historical books on-line ==
[http://books.google.com/books?id=POFGAAAAIAAJ&pg=PA88&dq=Sale's+brigade+in+Afghanistan+It+was+still+dark+on+the+morning&cd=1#v=onepage&q&f=false ''Sale's Brigade in Afghanistan'' - The March to Tezeen] by Rev. G.R.Gleig 1846 (Google Books)
[[Category:1st Afghan War|Tezin, Action on the March to]]
[[Category:General Sale's March from Kabul to Jalalabad|Tezin, Action on the March to]]
[[Category:Battles|Tezin, Action on the March to]]
|partof=[[:Category:1st Afghan War|1st Afghan War 1839-42]]
|date=12 & 13 September 1842
|location=Huft Kotul, Tezin-e Khas, Afghanistan
|presidency=[[Bengal]]
|co-ordinates=[http://maps.google.co.uk/maps?ll=34.35,69.55&z=9&t=h&hl=en 34.350002°N 69.549388°E]
|result=British losses
|territory=
|combatant1=British & Indians
|combatant2=Ghilzai tribesmen
|commander1=[http://www.oxforddnb.com/index/101024533/ Maj Gen Sir Robert Sale]
|commander2=
|strength1=
|strength2=
|casualties1=
|casualties2=
}}
== Synopsis ==
Sale' brigade left Khoord-Kabul on 22 October and wound through a narrow pass for 17 miles before emerging into the valley of Tezin. There the advance guard encountered a significant Afghan force which they pushed back into the hills. Meanwhile as the rearguard came out of the pass it was attacked and a quantity of baggage and ammunition lost.
== External Links ==
[http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/First_Anglo-Afghan_War Wikipedia - 1st Afghan War]<br>[http://www.somerset.gov.uk/archives/sli/1afghan.htm Somerset Record Office - 1st Afghan War]<br>
== Historical books on-line ==
[http://books.google.com/books?id=POFGAAAAIAAJ&pg=PA88&dq=Sale's+brigade+in+Afghanistan+It+was+still+dark+on+the+morning&cd=1#v=onepage&q&f=false ''Sale's Brigade in Afghanistan'' - The March to Tezeen] by Rev. G.R.Gleig 1846 (Google Books)
[[Category:1st Afghan War|Tezin, Action on the March to]]
[[Category:General Sale's March from Kabul to Jalalabad|Tezin, Action on the March to]]
[[Category:Battles|Tezin, Action on the March to]]
