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.
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