YEAR IN FOCUS....1842
Mar 19, 2020
2 minutes
January
A DISASTROUS RETREAT LEAVES A LONE SURVIVOR
bout 16,000 British East India Company Army troops and civilians flee Kabul on 6 January 1842, towards the end of the First Anglo-Afghan War – the mass retreat followed an Afghan revolt in the city against British control. Exhaustion, cold and hunger claimed many lives during the
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