Siege of the Sherpur Cantonment
The Siege of the Sherpur Cantonment was a battle fought in December 1879, during the Second Anglo-Afghan War. On 3 September 1879 Sir Pierre Cavagnari, the British Resident in Kabul, and his escort were massacred by mutinous Afghan troops, initiating the second phase of the Second Anglo-Afghan War. A force was assembled and named the Kabul Field Force, under the command of major-general Frederick Roberts. After defeating Afghan forces at Chariasab on 6 October, Roberts marched into Kabul on 13 October. At the end of November, an army under the command of Mohammed Jan Khan Wardak, who had denounced Yaqub Khan as a British puppet and instead declared Musa Jan the new amir, gathered in the area north of Kabul. On 11 December a small detachment (c.170 men) of the 9th Queen's Royal Lancers and
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Siege of the Sherpur Cantonment
The Siege of the Sherpur Cantonment was a battle fought in December 1879, during the Second Anglo-Afghan War. On 3 September 1879 Sir Pierre Cavagnari, the British Resident in Kabul, and his escort were massacred by mutinous Afghan troops, initiating the second phase of the Second Anglo-Afghan War. A force was assembled and named the Kabul Field Force, under the command of major-general Frederick Roberts. After defeating Afghan forces at Chariasab on 6 October, Roberts marched into Kabul on 13 October. At the end of November, an army under the command of Mohammed Jan Khan Wardak, who had denounced Yaqub Khan as a British puppet and instead declared Musa Jan the new amir, gathered in the area north of Kabul. On 11 December a small detachment (c.170 men) of the 9th Queen's Royal Lancers and
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Bitwa pod Kabulem lub oblężeni ...... ej interwencji w Afganistanie.
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L'assedio di Sherpur è stata u ...... cimitero militare britannico.
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The Siege of the Sherpur Canto ...... s a British military cemetery.
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33 dead and wounded
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1879-12-23
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British victory
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50,000 tribal warriors
7,000Anglo-Indiantroops
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Assault on the Sherpur cantonment.
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Bitwa pod Kabulem lub oblężeni ...... ej interwencji w Afganistanie.
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L'assedio di Sherpur è stata u ...... lla seconda fase della guerra.
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The Siege of the Sherpur Canto ...... 9th Queen's Royal Lancers and
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Assedio di Sherpur
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Bitwa pod Kabulem (1879)
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Siege of the Sherpur Cantonment
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