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78 relations: A Midsummer Night's Dream, Afghanistan, Afghans, Alexander Burnes, Bala Hissar, Kabul, Battle of Gandamak, Battle of Ghazni, Battle of Waterloo, Bengal Army, Bengal Native Infantry, Bolan Pass, Camp follower, Cantonment, Champagne, Colonel (United Kingdom), Dost Mohammad Khan, Duke of Wellington's Regiment, East India Company, Eldred Pottinger, European influence in Afghanistan, Fall of Singapore, First Anglo-Afghan War, Flashman (novel), Florentia Sale, Gandamak, George Eden, 1st Earl of Auckland, George MacDonald Fraser, Ghilji, Governor-General of India, Great Game, Guerrilla warfare, HathiTrust, Havildar, Hindu Kush, Indian Rebellion of 1857, Jalalabad, Jezail, John Shelton (British Army officer), Kabul, Kabul Expedition (1842), Kabul–Jalalabad Road, Kandahar, Khyber Pass, Line of communication, List of heads of state of Afghanistan, List of massacres in Afghanistan, Madeira wine, Major general (United Kingdom), Military colours, standards and guidons, Order of the Bath, ... Expand index (28 more) »
- 1842 disasters in Asia
- 1842 in Afghanistan
- 19th-century disasters in Afghanistan
- Battles of the First Anglo-Afghan War
- Conflicts in 1842
- History of Nangarhar Province
- January 1842 events
- Massacres in Afghanistan
- Military withdrawals
A Midsummer Night's Dream
A Midsummer Night's Dream is a comedy play written by William Shakespeare in about 1595 or 1596.
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Afghanistan
Afghanistan, officially the Islamic Emirate of Afghanistan, is a landlocked country located at the crossroads of Central Asia and South Asia.
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Afghans
Afghans (افغانها) also Afghanistanis (افغانستانیها), (افغانان) or Afghan people are nationals or citizens of Afghanistan, or people with ancestry from there.
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Alexander Burnes
Captain Sir Alexander Burnes (16 May 1805 – 2 November 1841) was a Scottish explorer, military officer and diplomat associated with the Great Game.
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Bala Hissar, Kabul
Bala Hissar was an ancient fortress located in the south of the old city of Kabul, Afghanistan.
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Battle of Gandamak
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. 1842 retreat from Kabul and Battle of Gandamak are 1842 in Afghanistan, January 1842 events and last stands.
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Battle of Ghazni
The Battle of Ghazni took place in the city of Ghazni in central Afghanistan on Tuesday, July 23, 1839, during the First Anglo-Afghan War. 1842 retreat from Kabul and Battle of Ghazni are Battles of the First Anglo-Afghan War.
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Battle of Waterloo
The Battle of Waterloo was fought on Sunday 18 June 1815, near Waterloo (at that time in the United Kingdom of the Netherlands, now in Belgium), marking the end of the Napoleonic Wars.
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Bengal Army
The Bengal Army was the army of the Bengal Presidency, one of the three presidencies of British India within the British Empire.
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Bengal Native Infantry
The regiments of Bengal Native Infantry, alongside the regiments of Bengal European Infantry, were the regular infantry components of the East India Company's Bengal Army from the raising of the first Native battalion in 1757 to the passing into law of the Government of India Act 1858 (as a direct result of the Indian Mutiny).
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Bolan Pass
Bolan Pass (درۂ بولان) is a valley and a natural gateway through the Toba Kakar range in Balochistan province of Pakistan.
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Camp follower
Camp followers are civilians who follow armies.
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Cantonment
A cantonment is a military quarters.
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Champagne
Champagne is a sparkling wine originated and produced in the Champagne wine region of France under the rules of the appellation, which demand specific vineyard practices, sourcing of grapes exclusively from designated places within it, specific grape-pressing methods and secondary fermentation of the wine in the bottle to cause carbonation.
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Colonel (United Kingdom)
Colonel (Col) is a rank of the British Army and Royal Marines, ranking below brigadier, and above lieutenant colonel.
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Dost Mohammad Khan
Emir Dost Mohammad Khan Barakzai (Pashto/دوست محمد خان; December 23, 1792 – June 8, 1863), nicknamed the Amir-i Kabir, was the founder of the Barakzai dynasty and one of the prominent rulers of Afghanistan during the First Anglo-Afghan War.
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Duke of Wellington's Regiment
The Duke of Wellington's Regiment (West Riding) was a line infantry regiment of the British Army, forming part of the King's Division.
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East India Company
The East India Company (EIC) was an English, and later British, joint-stock company founded in 1600 and dissolved in 1874.
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Eldred Pottinger
Eldred Pottinger (12 August 181115 November 1843) was a Bombay Army officer and diplomat.
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European influence in Afghanistan
European influence in Afghanistan has been present in the country since the Victorian era, when the competing imperial powers of Britain and Russia contested for control over Afghanistan as part of the Great Game.
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Fall of Singapore
The fall of Singapore, also known as the Battle of Singapore, took place in the South–East Asian theatre of the Pacific War.
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First Anglo-Afghan War
The First Anglo-Afghan War (ده انګريز افغان اولني جګړه) was fought between the British Empire and the Emirate of Kabul from 1838 to 1842. 1842 retreat from Kabul and First Anglo-Afghan War are 1842 in Afghanistan and conflicts in 1842.
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Flashman (novel)
Flashman is a 1969 novel by George MacDonald Fraser.
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Florentia Sale
Florentia Sale, Lady Sale (née Wynch; 13 August 1790 – 6 July 1853) was an Englishwoman who travelled the world while married to her husband, Sir Robert Henry Sale, a British army officer.
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Gandamak
Gandamak is a village of Afghanistan located between Kabul and Jalalabad, from Jalalabad on the old road to Kabul.
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George Eden, 1st Earl of Auckland
George Eden, 1st Earl of Auckland, (25 August 1784 – 1 January 1849) was an English Whig politician and colonial administrator.
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George MacDonald Fraser
George MacDonald Fraser (2 April 1925 – 2 January 2008) was a Scottish author and screenwriter.
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Ghilji
The Ghiljī (غلجي,; Xelji) also spelled Khilji, Khalji, or Ghilzai and Ghilzay (غلزی), are one of the largest Pashtun tribes.
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Governor-General of India
The governor-general of India (1833 to 1950, from 1858 to 1947 the viceroy and governor-general of India, commonly shortened to viceroy of India) was the representative of the monarch of the United Kingdom in their capacity as the Emperor/Empress of India and after Indian independence in 1947, the representative of the Monarch of India.
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Great Game
The Great Game was a rivalry between the 19th-century British and Russian empires over influence in Central Asia, primarily in Afghanistan, Persia, and Tibet.
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Guerrilla warfare
Guerrilla warfare is a form of unconventional warfare in which small groups of irregular military, such as rebels, partisans, paramilitary personnel or armed civilians including recruited children, use ambushes, sabotage, terrorism, raids, petty warfare or hit-and-run tactics in a rebellion, in a violent conflict, in a war or in a civil war to fight against regular military, police or rival insurgent forces.
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HathiTrust
HathiTrust Digital Library is a large-scale collaborative repository of digital content from research libraries including content digitized via Google Books and the Internet Archive digitization initiatives, as well as content digitized locally by libraries.
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Havildar
Havildar or havaldar (Hindustani: हविलदार or हवलदार (Devanagari), حوالدار (Perso-Arabic)) is a rank in the Indian, Pakistani and Nepalese armies, equivalent to sergeant.
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Hindu Kush
The Hindu Kush is an mountain range on the Iranian Plateau in Central and South Asia to the west of the Himalayas.
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Indian Rebellion of 1857
The Indian Rebellion of 1857 was a major uprising in India in 1857–58 against the rule of the British East India Company, which functioned as a sovereign power on behalf of the British Crown.
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Jalalabad
Jalalabad (d͡ʒä.lɑː.lɑː.bɑːd̪) is the fifth-largest city of Afghanistan. 1842 retreat from Kabul and Jalalabad are history of Nangarhar Province.
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Jezail
The jezail or jezzail (جزائل, ultimately from the plural form جزایل, "long ") is a simple, cost-efficient and often handmade long arm commonly used in South Asia and parts of the Middle East in the past.
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John Shelton (British Army officer)
Colonel John Shelton (1790/91 – 13 May 1845) was an officer of the British Army who commanded the 44th (East Essex) Regiment of Foot during the First Anglo-Afghan War and was second-in-command to Major General Sir William Elphinstone.
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Kabul
Kabul is the capital city of Afghanistan.
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Kabul Expedition (1842)
The Kabul Expedition was a punitive campaign undertaken by the British against the Afghans following the disastrous retreat from Kabul. 1842 retreat from Kabul and Kabul Expedition (1842) are 1842 in Afghanistan, Battles of the First Anglo-Afghan War and conflicts in 1842.
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Kabul–Jalalabad Road
The Kabul–Jalalabad Road, also known as National Highway 08 (NH08), is a highway between the Afghan cities of Kabul (the national capital) and Jalalabad, the largest city in eastern Afghanistan and capital of Nangarhar Province.
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Kandahar
Kandahar is a city in Afghanistan, located in the south of the country on the Arghandab River, at an elevation of.
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Khyber Pass
The Khyber Pass (Urdu: درۂ خیبر; translit) is a mountain pass in the Khyber Pakhtunkhwa province of Pakistan, on the border with the Nangarhar Province of Afghanistan.
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Line of communication
A line of communication (or communications) is the route that connects an operating military unit with its supply base.
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List of heads of state of Afghanistan
This article lists the heads of state of Afghanistan since the foundation of the first modern Afghan state, the Hotak Empire, in 1709.
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List of massacres in Afghanistan
The following is a list of massacres that have occurred in Afghanistan (numbers may be approximate). 1842 retreat from Kabul and list of massacres in Afghanistan are massacres in Afghanistan.
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Madeira wine
Madeira is a fortified wine made on the Portuguese Madeira Islands, off the coast of Africa.
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Major general (United Kingdom)
Major general (Maj Gen) is a "two-star" rank in the British Army and Royal Marines.
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Military colours, standards and guidons
In military organizations, the practice of carrying colours, standards, flags, or guidons, both to act as a rallying point for troops and to mark the location of the commander, is thought to have originated in Ancient Egypt some 5,000 years ago.
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Order of the Bath
The Most Honourable Order of the Bath is a British order of chivalry founded by King George I on 18 May 1725.
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Party
A party is a gathering of people who have been invited by a host for the purposes of socializing, conversation, recreation, or as part of a festival or other commemoration or celebration of a special occasion.
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Persian language
Persian, also known by its endonym Farsi (Fārsī|), is a Western Iranian language belonging to the Iranian branch of the Indo-Iranian subdivision of the Indo-European languages.
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Peshawar
Peshawar (پېښور; پشور;; پشاور) is the sixth most populous city of Pakistan, with a district population of over 4.7 million in the 2023 census.
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Port wine
Port wine (vinho do Porto), or simply port, is a Portuguese fortified wine produced in the Douro Valley of northern Portugal.
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Random House
Random House is an imprint and publishing group of Penguin Random House.
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Robert Sale
Major-General Sir Robert Henry Sale (19 September 1782 – 21 December 1845) was a British Army officer who commanded the garrison of Jalalabad during the First Afghan War and was killed in action during the First Anglo-Sikh War.
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Russian Empire
The Russian Empire was a vast empire that spanned most of northern Eurasia from its proclamation in November 1721 until its dissolution in March 1917.
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Sapper
A sapper, also called a combat engineer, is a combatant or soldier who performs a variety of military engineering duties, such as breaching fortifications, demolitions, bridge-building, laying or clearing minefields, preparing field defenses, and road and airfield construction and repair.
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Sepoy
Sepoy, related to sipahi, is a term denoting professional Indian infantryman, traditionally armed with a musket, in the armies of the Mughal Empire and the Maratha Army.
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Shah Shujah Durrani
Shah Shuja Durrani (Pashto/Persian: شاه شجاع درانی; November 1785 – 5 April 1842) was ruler of the Durrani Empire from 1803 to 1809.
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Sir George Pollock, 1st Baronet
Field Marshal Sir George Pollock, 1st Baronet (4 June 1786 – 6 October 1872) was a British Indian Army officer.
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Stroke
Stroke (also known as a cerebrovascular accident (CVA) or brain attack) is a medical condition in which poor blood flow to the brain causes cell death.
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The Economist
The Economist is a British weekly newspaper published in printed magazine format and digitally.
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The Flashman Papers
The Flashman Papers is a series of novels and short stories written by George MacDonald Fraser, the first of which was published in 1969.
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The New York Times
The New York Times (NYT) is an American daily newspaper based in New York City.
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Theodor Fontane
Theodor Fontane (30 December 1819 – 20 September 1898) was a German novelist and poet, regarded by many as the most important 19th-century German-language realist author.
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Thomas John Anquetil
Brigadier General Thomas John Anquetil (1784 – 12 January 1842) was an officer of the British Indian Army who was the last senior officer to command the ill-fated Army of the Indus force as it retreated from Kabul in the First Anglo-Afghan War in 1842.
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University of Chicago Library
University of Chicago Library is the library system of the University of Chicago, located on the university's campus in Chicago, Illinois, United States.
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Victoria (British TV series)
Victoria is a British historical television drama series created and principally written by Daisy Goodwin, starring Jenna Coleman as Queen Victoria.
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Wazir Akbar Khan
Wazīr Akbar Khān (Pashto/Dari: وزير اکبر خان; 1816–1847), born Mohammad Akbar Khān (محمد اکبر خان) and also known as Amīr Akbar Khān (امير اکبر خان), was a Barakzai prince, general, emir for a year, and finally wazir/heir apparent to Dost Mohammad Khan until his death in 1847.
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William Brydon
William Brydon (10 October 1811 – 20 March 1873) was a British doctor who was assistant surgeon in the British East India Company Army during the First Anglo-Afghan War, famous for reportedly being the only member of an army of 4,500 men, plus 12,000 accompanying civilians, to reach safety in Jalalabad at the end of the 1842 retreat from Kabul.
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William George Keith Elphinstone
Major-General William George Keith Elphinstone CB (26 January 1782 – 23 April 1842) was an officer of the British Army during the 19th century.
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William Hay Macnaghten
Sir William Hay Macnaghten, 1st Baronet (24 August 179323 December 1841), was a British civil servant in India, who played a major part in the First Anglo-Afghan War.
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William Nott
Major-General Sir William Nott (20 January 1782 – 1 January 1845) was a British military officer of the Bengal Army, East India Company in British India.
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William Shakespeare
William Shakespeare (23 April 1564 – 23 April 1616) was an English playwright, poet and actor.
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Willoughby Cotton
Lieutenant-General Sir Willoughby Cotton (1783 – 4 May 1860) was an English soldier in the British Army.
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44th (East Essex) Regiment of Foot
The 44th Regiment of Foot was an infantry regiment in the British Army, raised in 1741.
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5th Bengal Light Cavalry
5th Bengal Light Cavalry (5th BLC) was a cavalry regiment of the Bengal Army of the East India Company.
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See also
1842 disasters in Asia
- 1842 retreat from Kabul
1842 in Afghanistan
- 1842 retreat from Kabul
- Action at Hykulzye
- Battle of Gandamak
- Battle of Jellalabad
- First Anglo-Afghan War
- Kabul Expedition (1842)
19th-century disasters in Afghanistan
- 1842 retreat from Kabul
Battles of the First Anglo-Afghan War
- 1842 retreat from Kabul
- Action at Hykulzye
- Battle of Ghazni
- Battle of Jellalabad
- Kabul Expedition (1842)
- Siege of Kahun
Conflicts in 1842
- 1842 Slave Revolt in the Cherokee Nation
- 1842 retreat from Kabul
- Action at Hykulzye
- Battle of Arroyo Grande
- Battle of Beni Mered
- Battle of Chapu
- Battle of Chinkiang
- Battle of Congella
- Battle of Debre Tabor
- Battle of Fort Tabarsi
- Battle of Ichkeria
- Battle of Jellalabad
- Battle of Ningpo
- Battle of Orurillo
- Battle of San Cala
- Battle of Tzeki
- Battle of Woosung
- Battle of the Brule
- Battle of the Salado
- Bombardment of Barcelona (1842)
- Capture of Monterey
- Dawson massacre
- Dogra–Tibetan war
- Dorr Rebellion
- First Anglo-Afghan War
- First Opium War
- Kabul Expedition (1842)
- Liberal rebellions of 1842
- Mary Carver Affair
- Mier expedition
- Recapture of Tarapacá
- Russian conquest of Bukhara
- Second Seminole War
- Shoorcha rebellion
- Texan schooner San Antonio
- Texas Archive War
History of Nangarhar Province
- 1842 retreat from Kabul
- 2007 Shinwar shooting
- Battle of Tora Bora
- Battle of Tora Bora (2017)
- Darunta training camp
- Dost Mohammad's Campaign to Jalalabad (1834)
- Eastern Province, Afghanistan
- Eastern Shura
- Ezatullah (Nangarhar)
- Haroon al-Afghani
- Hazrat Ali (Afghan politician)
- History of Jalalabad
- Jalalabad
- Mohammad Yunus Khalis
- Mohmand Valley raid
- Nangarhar offensive (2016)
- Operation Unified Resolve
January 1842 events
- 1842 retreat from Kabul
- Battle of Gandamak
- Battle of San Cala
Massacres in Afghanistan
- 1842 retreat from Kabul
- 1979 Herat uprising
- 1980 student protests in Kabul
- 1998 Mazar-i-Sharif massacre
- 2021 Kandahar bombing
- 2021 Kunduz mosque bombing
- 3 Hoot uprising
- Afshar Operation
- Battle for Hill 3234
- Battle of Jaji
- Battle of Maravar Pass
- Battles of Mazar-i-Sharif (1997–1998)
- Battles of Zhawar
- Chindawol uprising
- First Battle of Zhawar
- Hazara genocide (19th century)
- Kerala massacre
- Kulchabat, Bala Karz and Mushkizi massacre
- Laghman massacre
- List of massacres against Hazaras
- List of massacres in Afghanistan
- Second Battle of Zhawar
- Siege of Urgun
Military withdrawals
- 1842 retreat from Kabul
- 2014 retreat from Western Bahr el Ghazal
- 2020–2021 U.S. troop withdrawal from Afghanistan
- Great Retreat
- Great Retreat (Serbia)
- Great Siberian Ice March
- Ice March
- Israeli disengagement from Gaza
- Liberation of Kherson
- Operation Berlin (Arnhem)
- Operation Ke
- Palioxis
- Roman withdrawal from Africa (255 BC)
- Soviet withdrawal from Afghanistan
- Steppe March
- Withdrawal (military)
- Withdrawal from Aden
- Withdrawal of United States troops from Afghanistan (2011–2016)
- Withdrawal of United States troops from Iraq (2007–2011)
- Withdrawal of United States troops from Iraq (2020–2021)
- Withdrawal through Andalal (1741)
References
Also known as Afghan uprising of 1842, Battle of gandamak, Massacre of Elphinstone's Army, Retreat from Cabul, Retreat from Kabul.