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The Battle of Kandahar was fought between the Afghan/Pashtun forces and Shah Shuja Durrani in 1834. Dost Muhammad Khan defeated Shah Shuja Durrani, Ranjit Singh, and imprisoned William Campbell.

Battle of Kandahar (1834)
Part of the Afghan-Sikh Wars
Date2 July, 1834
LocationKandahar
Result Emirate of Afghanistan Victory
Belligerents

Durrani Empire
Supported by:

East India Company
Sikh Empire		 Emirate of Afghanistan
Commanders and leaders
Shah Shuja Durrani
William Campbell (POW) 		Dost Muhammad Khan
Strength
30,000 unknown
Casualties and losses
16,000 killed in total
Conflicts in Afghanistan (1793–1973)

The Battle

The battle was fought on 1 May 1834, near Kandahar. The battle continued for 52 days and Shah Shuja Durrani failed to captured Kandahar. Later Dost Mohammad Khan's forces regrouped and attacked Shah Shuja's army, inflicting heavy losses on them and Shah Shuja retreated to Lahore with his remaining followers while William Campbell was imprisoned.

Aftermath

Shah Shuja was forced to retreat to India with a small group of loyal followers. The battle of Kandahar in 1834 was a setback for Shah Shuja's ambitions to reclaim the throne of Afghanistan.

References

  1. ^ Hodge, Carl Cavanagh (2007). Encyclopedia of the Age of Imperialism, 1800-1914. Greenwood Publishing Group. ISBN 978-0-313-33404-7.
  2. Norris, J. A. (1967-10-02). The First Afghan War 1838-1842. Cambridge University Press. p. 63. ISBN 978-0-521-05838-4.
  3. Waller, John H. (1990). Beyond the Khyber Pass: The Road to British Disaster in the First Afghan War. Random House. ISBN 978-0-394-56934-5.
  4. Olson, James Stuart; Shadle, Robert (1996). Historical Dictionary of the British Empire. Greenwood Publishing Group. p. 378. ISBN 978-0-313-27917-1.
  5. Ring, Trudy; Watson, Noelle; Schellinger, Paul (2012-11-12). Asia and Oceania: International Dictionary of Historic Places. Routledge. p. 441. ISBN 978-1-136-63979-1.
  6. https://www.google.com.pk/books/edition/The_First_Afghan_War_1838_1842/GuHlEZPBn5EC?hl=en&gbpv=1&dq=battle+of+kandahar+1834&pg=PA63&printsec=frontcover
  7. ^ Norris, J. A. (2 October 1967). The First Afghan War 1838-1842. ISBN 9780521058384.
  8. https://www.google.com.pk/books/edition/Who_s_who_in_the_History_of_Punjab_1800/8BduAAAAMAAJ?hl=en&gbpv=0&bsq=William%20campbell%20prisoner%201834%20dost
  9. Ludwig W. Adamec (2012). Historical Dictionary of Afghanistan. p. 240. ISBN 9780810878150.
  10. Harlan, Josiah (1842). A Memoir of India and Avghanistaun: With Observations on the Present Exciting and Critical State and Future Prospects of Those Countries. Comprising Remarks on the Massacre of the British Army in Cabul ... J. Dobson.
  11. Journal of the Asiatic Society of Bengal. Asiatic Society of Bengal. 1881. p. 84.
  12. Jalali, Ali Ahmad (2017-03-17). A Military History of Afghanistan: From the Great Game to the Global War on Terror. University Press of Kansas. p. 97. ISBN 978-0-7006-2407-2.
  13. MacMunn, George Fletcher (2002). Afghanistan: From Darius to Amanullah. Sang-e-Meel Publications. ISBN 978-969-35-1315-8.
  14. Imperial Gazetteer of India. Clarendon Press. 1908. p. 376.
  15. History Today. 2001. p. 14.
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