Battle of Kabul (1842)

Battle of Kabul
Part of the First Anglo-Afghan War
British and Indian troops outside Kabul 1842.
Date August–October 1842 Location Kabul, Afghanistan Result British victory and withdrawal; End of the First Anglo-Afghan War.
Belligerents
British Empire British East India Company	Emirate of Afghanistan
Commanders and leaders
George Pollock, William Nott, Robert Sale	Akbar Khan, several tribal chiefs
Strength
13,000	15,000
Casualties and losses
Around 500	+1,000

 British Empire

The Battle of Kabul was part of a punitive campaign undertaken by the British against the Afghans following the disastrous retreat from Kabul. Two British and East India Company armies advanced on the Afghan capital from Kandahar and Jalalabad to avenge the complete annihilation of its military column in January 1842. Having recovered prisoners captured during the retreat, the British demolished parts of Kabul before withdrawing to India. The action was the concluding engagement to the First Anglo-Afghan War.

In the late 1830s, the British government and the British East India Company became obsessed with the idea that Emir Dost Mohammed of Afghanistan was courting Imperial Russia. They arranged passage through Sindh for an army which invaded Afghanistan and restored the former ruler Shuja Shah Durrani, who had been deposed by Dost Mohammed thirty years earlier and who had been living as a pensioner in India. They also agreed safe passage for supplies and reinforcements with Maharaja Ranjit Singh of the Sikh Empire, in return for inducing Shah Shuja to formally cede the disputed region of Peshawar to him.

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