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  • History of War

    THE GREAT GAME

    Jul 11, 2019 3 minutes

    July 1839-October 1842

    FIRST ANGLO-AFGHAN WAR

    The East India Company invades Afghanistan to ostensibly settle a succession dispute between rival Afghan emirs Dost Mohammad Khan and Shah Shujah. The British occupy Kabul and restore Shujah to the Afghan throne. The occupation is unpopular, the British withdraw and Dost Mohammad is restored.

    “VIRTUALLY ALL OF THE 16,500 BRITISH AND INDIAN SOLDIERS, WORKERS AND CIVILIANS ARE KILLED, CAPTURED OR GO MISSING”

    1782-1834

    BRITISH EXPLORATIONS

    Beginning with George Foster in 1782, employees of the East India Company travel through Afghanistan in search of Central Asian

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