Battle of Jalalabad (1842)

Battle of Jellalabad
	Part of the First Anglo-Afghan War
	; The British troops (right) attack the Afghan line (illustration from a British book)
Date	12 November 1841 — 7 April 1842
Location	Jalalabad
Result	British victory
Belligerents
British Empire; East India Company	Emirate of Kabul; Afghan tribes
Commanders and leaders
Robert Sale; William Dennie †	Akbar Khan
Strength
Unknown, but outnumbered	Unknown, but outnumbered the British

The Battle of Jalalabad in 1842 was an Afghan siege of the isolated British outpost at Jalalabad, about 90 miles (140 km) east of Kabul during the First Anglo-Afghan War. The siege was lifted after five months when a British counterattack routed the Afghans, driving them back to Kabul.

^ Dalrymple, W. (2013). The Return of a King: The Battle for Afghanistan. Borzoi book. Bloomsbury. ISBN 978-1-4088-1830-5. Retrieved 15 June 2020. ...even though the garrison was by then outnumbered at least three to one by Akbar's huge army of Ghilzai and Shinwari tribal levies.
^ Dalrymple 2013: "...Even though the garrison was by then outnumbered at least three to one by Akbar's huge army of Ghilzai and Shinwari tribal levies.

[1] Dalrymple, W. (2013). The Return of a King: The Battle for Afghanistan. Borzoi book. Bloomsbury. ISBN 978-1-4088-1830-5. Retrieved 15 June 2020. ...even though the garrison was by then outnumbered at least three to one by Akbar's huge army of Ghilzai and Shinwari tribal levies.

[2] Dalrymple 2013: "...Even though the garrison was by then outnumbered at least three to one by Akbar's huge army of Ghilzai and Shinwari tribal levies.

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