What the records say
- When
- 6 Jan 1842 – 13 Jan 1842
- Kind
- Battle
- Coordinates
- 34.29° N, 70.04° E
- Description
- 1842 battle
Battle of Gandamak
1842 battle of the First Anglo-Afghan War
The Battle of Gandamak on 13 January 1842 was a defeat of British forces by Afghan tribesmen in the 1842 retreat from Kabul of General Elphinstone's army, during which the last survivors of the force—twenty officers and forty-five British soldiers of the 44th East Essex Regiment—were killed.
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- Wikidata: battles and siegesWikidata contributorsCreative Commons CC0 1.0 (public domain dedication)Source page
- Wikipedia year pages (German), by Wikipedia contributorsWikipedia contributors · names it “Während des Ersten Anglo-Afghanischen Kriegs kommt es zur Schlacht von Gandamak”Creative Commons Attribution-ShareAlike 4.0Source page
- Wikipedia year pages (French), by Wikipedia contributorsWikipedia contributors · names it “première guerre anglo-afghane : bataille de Gandamak. les Britanniques se retirent d’Afghanistan”Creative Commons Attribution-ShareAlike 4.0Source page