Afghan Conquest of Kunduz

Afghan Conquest of Kunduz
Part of Dost Mohammad's campaigns
DateMay–June 1859
Location
Result Afghan victory[1]
Territorial
changes
Subjugation of the Kunduz Khanate and Badakhshan[2]
Belligerents
Afghanistan Kunduz Khanate
Badakhshan
Kulob
Rostaq
Emirate of Bukhara Bukhara
Commanders and leaders
Dost Mohammad Khan
Azam Khan
Afzal Khan
Abdur Rahman Khan
Sharif Khan
Shams al-Din Khan
Mohammad Zaman Khan
Mir Ataliq Surrendered
Mir Suhrab Beg
Nasrullah Khan
Mir Shah
Mir Yusuf Ali
Strength
20,000[3]
40 guns[4]
40,000 (1859)[4][5]
50,000 Bukharans (1859)[5]
22,000 (1860)[6]

The Afghan Conquest of Kunduz took place from May to June 1859. The conflict was between the Kunduz Khanate and the Emirate of Afghanistan. The conflict began after Mir Ataliq, the ruler of Kunduz, though nominally under Afghan rule, wished to remain under a degree of high autonomy. Mir Ataliq rejected many of the Afghan demands to re-enter their suzerainty, leading to Afghan forces under Afzal Khan to began mobilizing. The Afghans assembled their forces along the border of Kunduz, with an envoy delivering an ultimatum, which the Mir Ataliq did not respond to. This led to the Afghans invading in May 1859.

The Afghans defeated the armies of Mir Ataliq in battle, forcing his abdication as the Afghans closed in on his capital, with his brother-in-law negotiating a peace settlement that saw the Afghans annex the Kunduz Khanate. Badakhshan was also subjugated under Afghan rule during this conflict.

  1. ^ Lee 1996, p. 268.
  2. ^ Noelle 1997, p. 100-101.
  3. ^ Lee 1996, p. 265.
  4. ^ a b Noelle 1997, p. 99.
  5. ^ a b Lee 1996, p. 266.
  6. ^ Noelle 1997, p. 100.