Showing posts with label Afghan. Show all posts
Showing posts with label Afghan. Show all posts

Monday, August 19, 2019

The Explorers' Club, № DCCIII

Operation AXIOM: After the World War—The Third Anglo-Afghan War, Part II
8 August 1919: The Treaty of Rawalpindi—The peace treaty allowed both sides to claim victory: the British had repulsed the Afghan invasion of the Raj & reaffirmed the Durand Line as the border, & the Afghans had, at the cost of a thousand lives & the end of British subsidies, reclaimed control of their own foreign policy; by year's end, the Raj faced a rebellion in the frontier Waziristan province.




Lest we forget.

Tuesday, May 7, 2019

The Explorers' Club, № DCLXXXVII

Operation AXIOM: After the World War—The Third Anglo-Afghan War, Part I
May 1919: Afghan forces had invaded British India on 3 May & captured the town of Bagh, revealing the plan to invade in coordination with an uprising in Peshawar on 8 May; the British Raj declared war on 6 May; the Afghans were hopelessly outnumbered & outclassed in weaponry, but both the British & Indian Armies were roiling with discontent amidst the slow pace of post-Armistice demobilization.





Lest we forget.