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Encyclopedia: Second Anglo-Afghan War People who viewed "Second Anglo-Afghan War" also viewed: The debacle of the Afghan civil war left a vacuum in the Hindu Kush area that concerned the British, who were well aware of the many times in history it had been employed as the invasion route to India. The second section of Afghan border demarcated during Abdur Rahman's reign was in the Wakhan Corridor. www.nationmaster.com /encyclopedia/Second-Anglo_Afghan-War   (4035 words)

European influence in Afghanistan - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia First was the Russian influence at the Iranian court, which prompted the Russians to support Iran in its attempt to take Herat, historically the western gateway to Afghanistan and northern India. The debacle of the Afghan civil war left a vacuum in the Hindu Kush area that concerned the British, who were well aware of the many times in history it had been employed as the invasion route to India. Afghan forces achieved success in the early days of the war as Pashtun tribesmen on both sides of the border joined forces with them. en.wikipedia.org /wiki/European_influence_in_Afghanistan   (4198 words)

Afghanistan Britain War 1919 Sensing post-World War I British fatigue, the frailty of British positions along the Afghan border, unrest in British India, and confidence in the consolidation of his power at home, Amanullah, the new ruler of Afghanistan, suddenly attacked the British in May 1919 in two thrusts. Afghan forces achieved some success in the early days of the war as Pashtun tribesmen from both sides of the border joined forces with them. Before signing the final document with the British, the Afghans concluded a treaty of friendship with the new Bolshevik regime in the Soviet Union; Afghanistan thereby became one of the first nations to recognize the Soviet government, and a "special relationship" evolved between the two governments. www.onwar.com /aced/data/alpha/afguk1919.htm   (254 words)

Probert Encyclopaedia: Wars (A-D) Wars (A-D) The Achinese War was a war between Dutch colonial forces and the Muslim kingdom of Achin in northern Sumatra, lasting from 1873 to 1904. The war started in April 1775 when gage, the British commander at Boston, encountered resistance at Lexington and Concord, and a Declaration of Independence was issued on the 4th of July 1776 which described the colonies as states and the country as the republic of the United States of America. The Algerine War was a short affair between the USA and Algeria fought in 1812 following a treaty signed in 1795 between the Dey of Algiers and the USA by which the USA paid a ransom for American captives and promissed an annual tribute in exchange for commercial privileges. www.probertencyclopaedia.com /FW.HTM   (1743 words)

[ Afghan Elections 2004-2005 ] In a compromise decision, he was chosen as the first interim president of Afghanistan after the fall of the communist regime in April 1992. Creates the modern Afghan state within defined boundaries and a single central authority, using coercion, heavy taxation, and forced conscription, basing his legitimacy on Islamic concepts of justice and obedience to the ruler. During the war against the Soviets, he was heavily favored by the U.S. and Pakistani intelligence agencies. www.azadiradio.org /en/specials/elections/historical-chronology.asp   (2041 words)

History of Afghanistan - The History Beat Dari is spoken by more than one-third of the population as a first language and serves as a lingua franca for most Afghans, though the Taliban use Pashto. An often unacknowledged event that nevertheless played an important role in Afghan history (and in the politics of Afghanistan's neighbors and the entire region up to the present) was the rise in the tenth century of a strong Sunni dynasty--the Ghaznavids. The casualties were Afghans employed as security guards by the Afghan Technical Consultancy, the U.N. demining agency (Afghanistan is the most heavily mined country on the planet). history.searchbeat.com /afghanistan.htm   (4392 words)

Comparative Criminology Asia - Afghanistan Sponsored by the UN, Afghan factions opposed to the Taliban met in Bonn, Germany in early December and agreed to restore stability and governance to Afghanistan by creating an interim government and establishing a process to move toward a permanent government. The Afghan economy continues to be overwhelmingly agricultural, despite the fact that only 12% of its total land area is arable and less than 6% currently is cultivated. AI reported that the Afghan intelligence agency, National Security Directorate, ran at least two prisons and there were unconfirmed reports of private detention facilities around Kabul and in northern regions of the country. www-rohan.sdsu.edu /faculty/rwinslow/asia_pacific/afghanistan.html   (11532 words)

Third Afghan War, 1919 Despite German and Turkish agitation, Afghanistan remained neutral during the war, thanks in large part to British subsidies (instituted as a settlement of the second Afghan war). The Third Afghan War: an Introduction, by Paul Hinson. Afghanistan remained netural during that war, but expelled Axis citizens in 1941 at British and Soviet request. www.regiments.org /wars/20thcent/19afghan.htm   (816 words)

[ Afghan Elections 2004-2005 ] Creates the modern Afghan state within defined boundaries and a single central authority, using coercion, heavy taxation, and forced conscription, basing his legitimacy on Islamic concepts of justice and obedience to the ruler. During the war against the Soviets, he was heavily favored by the U.S. and Pakistani intelligence agencies. Jami'at-e Islami is the oldest Afghan radical Islamist party, with strong ties to the Muslim Brotherhood. www.azadiradio.org /en/specials/elections/historical-chronology.asp   (2041 words)

The Soviet-Afghan War Third, the inability of the Soviet military to win the war decisively condemned it to suffer a slow bloodletting, in a process that exposed the very weaknesses of the military, as well as the Soviet political structure and society. But the war was actually fought at the low end of the tactical spectrum where platoon leaders tried to find and fight small, indigenous forces that would stand and fight only when the terrain and circumstances were to their advantage. Third, despite the Soviet Union's penetration and lengthy experience in Afghanistan, their intelligence was poor and hampered by the need to explain events within the Marxist-Leninist framework. www.kansaspress.ku.edu /grasovpreface.html   (4087 words)

history The impasse in the present war has led demands by some that the ex-king return to serve as head of an interim governmetn which would end the war and establish a representative government in Afghanistan. This threatened to cause a general uprising among the "British" Afghans and Amir Amanullah appointed him minister of war in 1919, in which post he served until 1924, when he was appointed Afghan minister at Paris. Afghan forces rushed the building in which he was being held and he was slain. www.ariaye.com /english/history.html   (5790 words)

Central Asia Lexicon Treaty of Rawapindi (August 8, 1919): Treaty concluding the third Anglo-Afghan War. Treaty of Segauli / Sagauli(1815/16): Signed at the end of the Anglo-Nepalese war of 1814-16. Britain recognises Afghan independence, in particular as concerns its ability to conduct its own foreign affairs, and ends British subsidies agreed upon by the Treaty of Gadamank. www.billbuxton.com /lexicon.html   (3124 words)

frontline: teacher center: teachers guide: roots of terrorism PBS Meanwhile, the United States, motivated both by Cold War politics and Saudi Arabia, which was eager to see a strong Islam state emerge in Afghanistan, led an international effort to support a squabbling band of resistance groups (known as the "mujahedeen") based in Pakistan. It is difficult to find Afghan leaders today who do not make a virulent blend of radical Islam, gratuitous violence, and control of some portion of the illicit economy the foundation of their authority. In December 1979, when the Soviets finally intervened, it transformed the rebellion into a war of national liberation that drew on a tradition of rural resistance to the impositions of the central state. www.pbs.org /wgbh/pages/frontline/teach/afghanistan   (1959 words)

frontline: teacher center: teachers guide: roots of terrorism PBS The withdrawal of Britain from South Asia and the rise of the Cold War brought Afghanistan gradually under the shadow of the Soviet Union in the 1950s, as the United States government was unwilling to match Soviet influence in the country. During this period, a culture war in the urban areas played out between an emerging Communist party (the People's Democratic Party of Afghanistan, or PDPA) and an equally young Islamist movement. The Soviet intervention transformed the rebellion into a war of national liberation that drew on a tradition of rural resistance to the impositions of the central state. www.pbs.org /wgbh/pages/frontline/teach/afghanistan/timeline.html   (1896 words)

The Last Toryboy The first Anglo-Afghan war was a straightforward attempt to annex Afghanistan, and it was an unmitigated disaster. Things then went sour, with the British garrison at Kabul being massacred, and in a replay of the first Afghan war a British retaliatory punitive expedition (the Battle of Maiwand) was a victorious slaughter for the British. The third Anglo-Afghan war, nothing more than a few skirmishes, is not considered in the following rant. eubanana.blogspot.com /2003_12_01_eubanana_archive.html   (1949 words)

Arc of Crisis: Afghanistan Timeline Afghan guerrila movement, the mujahedeen, is born after conservative Islamic leaders in the countryside advocate armed revolt. Alexander conquered the Achaemenians and most of the Afghan satrapies including Aria (in the region of modern Herat), Bactria (Balkh), Sattagydia (Ghazni), Arachosia (Kandahar), and Drangiana (Seistan). British forces try once again to bring country under their sphere of influence by assassinating the Afghan King Emir Habibullah Khan. journalism.berkeley.edu /projects/arccrisis/afghan-aftimeline.html   (690 words)

Afghanistan History Within the country there were numerous bloody civil wars for the throne, and for many Afghanis it meant little that their lives were now being uprooted and destroyed by ethnic kin, as opposed to foreign invaders. And while this alone would not end all of the bloodshed and the fighting, it would create a situation where the workers and farmers of Afghanistan would be more able to cast off the warlords and petty feudal tyrants, take control of their destinies, and create a society that is based upon cooperation and solidarity. The collapse of the PDPA government did not mark the end of Afghanistan’s civil war. afghangovernment.com /briefhistory.htm   (3049 words)

WAR :: INQ7.net The forbidding landscape of trenches and walled cities makes one think immediately of the First World War, but in fact the real history of Afghanistan is as much about corruption as it about carnage. ANJOMAN, Afghanistan - The American spy had come to Afghanistan all kitted out for the first war of the 21st century, a rucksack bulging with hi-tech gadgets and gizmos - and then he jumped on his horse. Horse trading, greenbacks and the Afghan art of the deal only add to the sense of time-warp, with mountain folk charging metropolitan journalists up to 2,000 dollars for beasts of burden to get their Gucci luggage over the hill. www.inq7.net /specials/newwar/wardiaries/day_44-1.htm   (457 words)

Afghan Pre-Loya Jirga Complexities - Security Council - Global Policy Forum The First Afghan war, the second Afghan war, the third Afghan war and now the fourth Afghan war. The mystery shrouding the obscure Afghan socio-political fabric could not be deciphered unless insight into its ethnic and demographic complexities, which as well holds a key to the success of Loya Jirga, now considered as the last prescription of enduring peace and political stability in Afghanistan. No war heroes or solemn ceremony in honour of the unknown soldiers who died for an unknown cause at least not for their own. www.globalpolicy.org /security/issues/afghan/2001/1214loya.htm   (1408 words)

A Selection of Historical Maps of Afghanistan (G&M Reading Room, Library of Congress) During the years after the First Anglo-Afghan War the Russians, interested in the territories of Central Asia, advanced southward. At the end of the Second Anglo-Afghan War, the Treaty of Gandomak was completed between the British government and Amir Yaqub Khan. The first Muslim-Arab conquests occurred from 652 to 654. www.loc.gov /rr/geogmap/pub/afghanistan.html   (1350 words)

Encyclopedia: First Anglo Afghan War In April 1842 at the end of the First Anglo-Afghan War, retreating British soldiers fought against Afghan troops to exit through Khyber Pass back into British India. Three major Anglo-Afghan wars occurred in the span of only 70 years between Afghan tribes and the British-Indian territory. There was no sign of Akbar's promised escort and the horror started immediately after the rearguard left the compound with the Afghans swarming over the walls into the cantonment eager for loot. www.nationmaster.com /encyclopedia/First-Anglo_Afghan-War   (215 words)

The Soviet-Afghan War First, the real Soviet casualties from the war are still a secret, but almost double the official figures released by the Gorbachev regime in a great show of glasnost (openness). The first thing we discovered is that the process used to develop the material in the manuscript is different than that of the World War II war experience volumes. First, although violent and destructive, the war was limited and protracted. www.kansaspress.ku.edu /grasovpreface.html   (4087 words)

Personalities.DostMohammadKhan.shtm First they negotiated unsatisfactorily with Dost Mohammad, and then they gave military support to an exiled Afghan ruler, Shah Shoja'. June 9, 1863, Herat), ruler of Afghanistan (1826-63) and founder of the Barakzay dynasty, who maintained Afghan independence during a time when the nation was a focus of political struggles between Great Britain and Russia. In 1816 the clan rose in rebellion against the Afghan ruler Mahmud Shah, who had put to death his prime minister, a member of the clan. www.sabawoon.com /afghanpedia/Personalities.DostMohammadKhan.shtm   (331 words)

[No title] The first Anglo-Afghan war was the first of three wars that the British fought against the Pathans, coming off the worst every time. In the first half of the nineteenth century Afghanistan was in an almost constant state of anarchy, until the arrival of Dost Mohammed Khan. In April 1842 Shah Shuja was killed by Afghans, who continued their struggle against the British. members.lycos.co.uk /hohenloh/road/AFGHAN.HTM   (304 words)

frontline: teacher center: teachers guide: roots of terrorism PBS The withdrawal of Britain from South Asia and the rise of the Cold War brought Afghanistan gradually under the shadow of the Soviet Union in the 1950s, as the United States government was unwilling to match Soviet influence in the country. During this period, a culture war in the urban areas played out between an emerging Communist party (the People's Democratic Party of Afghanistan, or PDPA) and an equally young Islamist movement. The Soviet intervention transformed the rebellion into a war of national liberation that drew on a tradition of rural resistance to the impositions of the central state. www.pbs.org /wgbh/pages/frontline/teach/afghanistan/timeline.html   (1896 words)

Afghanistan Online: Chronological History of Afghanistan--Part III The first museum in Afghanistan is instituted at Baghe Bala. July 1880, Afghan woman named Malalai carries the Afghan flag forward after the soldiers carrying the flag were killed by the British. Pakistan and Afghanistan come close to war over Pashtunistan. www.afghan-web.com /history/chron/index3.html   (1028 words)

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