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The 1842 retreat from Kabul was the retreat of the British and East India Company forces from Kabul during the First Anglo-Afghan War. An uprising in Kabul forced the then-commander, Major-General William Elphinstone , to fall back to the British garrison at Jalalabad .
Two British and East India Company armies forced through the Khyber Pass and advanced on the Afghan capital from Kandahar and Jalalabad to avenge the complete annihilation of the British-Indian military-civilian column in January 1842.
13 de ene. de 2023 · On 9 October, in a symbolic act of vengeance, the British blew up the city's Great Bazaar. A round of revenge attacks, rapes, and plunder followed. Three days later, the British army marched out of Afghanistan and retraversed the Khyber Pass. Back in Britain, there was an official inquiry into the retreat debacle, but little came of it.
- Mark Cartwright
9 de feb. de 2010 · On January 13, 1842, a British army doctor reaches the British sentry post at Jalalabad, Afghanistan, the lone survivor of a 16,000-strong Anglo-Indian expeditionary force that was massacred in...
11 de nov. de 2020 · It’s early January, 1842. The bitter cold howled through the Khyber Pass high up in the mountains of Afghanistan. In Kabul, the British and Indian garrison of 16,500 soldiers and civilians...
6 de dic. de 2019 · A British incursion into Afghanistan ended in disaster in 1842 when an entire British army, while retreating back to India, was massacred. Only a single survivor made it back to British-held territory. It was assumed the Afghans let him live to tell the story of what had happened.
Britain’s Retreat from Kabul 1842. The inhospitable terrain, the unforgiving and unpredictable weather, fractured tribal politics, turbulent relations with the local population and armed civilians: these are just some of the issues that led to Britain’s downfall in Afghanistan.
