The First Anglo-Afghan War was fought between the British East India Company and Afghanistan, after Britain tried to install the exiled Shah Shuja as ruler in place of the Emir Dost Mohammad, whom it suspected of leaning toward Russia. A British and Indian army marched to Kabul and occupied the country, but a rising in the capital in late 1841 forced the garrison to withdraw. During the retreat in the winter of 1842, almost all of the roughly 16,000 soldiers and camp followers were killed in the mountain passes, and only a few survivors reached Jalalabad. A British force returned to Kabul to take revenge, and then left, and Dost Mohammad resumed his rule.
Before and after
- from 1839 to 1841Second Egyptian-Ottoman War
- from 1839 to 1876Tanzimat
- 1839Founding of Harvard College Observatory
- 19 January 1839Birth of Paul Cézanne
- from March 1839 to October 1842First Anglo-Afghan War
- 9 March 1839Birth of Modest Petrovich Mussorgsky
- 16 March 1839Birth of Sully Prudhomme
- from 18 March 1839 to 29 August 1842First Opium War
- 19 April 1839Treaty of London
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