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MarkUK
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Date Posted：03/05/2019 06:20:32Copy HTML 100 years ago today, on 3 May 1919, one of the last colonial wars GB fought that was actually called a war rather than a rebellion or uprising, began, the 3rd Afghan War. The pro-British Amir of Afghanistan, Habibullah had been assassinated in February and replaced by his son Amanullah. He was anti-British and found the excuse he needed in the 13 April Amritsar Massacre to send troops through the Khyber Pass into British India. A body of troops occupied the border village of Bagh and killed a number of Indian labourers. In taking Bagh they controlled the water supply to the military post a few miles away in Landi Kotal. You're playing chess with Fate and Fate's winning.
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Re：3rd Afghan War Date Posted：09/05/2019 11:09:11Copy HTML Were the British soundly defeated because of that lack of water or was an agreement made to end the war without further fighting?
"It is forbidden to spit on cats in plague-time."
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Re：3rd Afghan War Date Posted：10/05/2019 08:08:29Copy HTML Embarrassingly an attempt to retake Bagh on 9 May failed when the British commander split his force leaving too few men to take the village. They did however secure the water supply but not the village itself. Stand by for further developments!
The war was the first colonial war in which we deployed aircraft on bombing missions.
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Re：3rd Afghan War Date Posted：11/05/2019 02:20:10Copy HTML Looking forward. Thanks!
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Re：3rd Afghan War Date Posted：11/05/2019 07:30:35Copy HTML A much larger force is deployed to attack Bagh on 11 May. Led by my local Regiment the North Staffordshires and the Gurkhas Bagh is retaken. British losses are eight killed and 32 wounded the Afghans lose around 100 dead and 300 wounded.
You're playing chess with Fate and Fate's winning.
Arnold Bennett
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Re：3rd Afghan War Date Posted：11/05/2019 06:52:11Copy HTML That's pretty decisive, I'd say!
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Re：3rd Afghan War Date Posted：12/05/2019 06:47:57Copy HTML |
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Re：3rd Afghan War Date Posted：13/05/2019 05:38:43Copy HTML After forcing the Afghans out of Bagh and back across the border the British themselves cross into Afghanistan via the Khyber Pass on 13 May and advance to Dacca unopposed.
You're playing chess with Fate and Fate's winning.
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Re：3rd Afghan War Date Posted：16/05/2019 06:07:50Copy HTML Having captured Dacca the British find themselves under heavy artillery fire from the Afghans in the surrounding hills. On 16 May a reconnaissance troop is sent out which scatters the slowly advancing Afghans.
You're playing chess with Fate and Fate's winning.
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Re：3rd Afghan War Date Posted：17/05/2019 05:39:50Copy HTML On 17 May the British advanced to take on the Afghans who were slowly moving in on Dacca. After an initial repulse they take the Afghan positions and drive them off. British losses were 28 killed and 157 wounded, heavy by frontier standards.
You're playing chess with Fate and Fate's winning.
Arnold Bennett
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Re：3rd Afghan War Date Posted：24/05/2019 11:57:48Copy HTML On 24 May a single Handley Page bomber launched an air raid on Kabul.
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Arnold Bennett
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Re：3rd Afghan War Date Posted：26/05/2019 08:00:30Copy HTML By 26 May the British India border territory of Waziristan had risen up in revolt against the British with men of the North and South Waziristan Militia either deserting or going over to the pro-Afghan rebels.
You're playing chess with Fate and Fate's winning.
Arnold Bennett
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Re：3rd Afghan War Date Posted：26/05/2019 08:53:49Copy HTML Your last post mimics what happened in Iraq when many of their soldiers switched sides and joined ISIS. |
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Re：3rd Afghan War Date Posted：27/05/2019 07:22:08Copy HTML On 27 May the Afghans bring in artillery by elephant and lay siege to the border town of Thal in the northern sector which is defended by entirely Indian Army units. Elsewhere along the southern front the British storm and capture the fortress of Spin Boldak using scaling ladders for the last time in a military operation. You're playing chess with Fate and Fate's winning.
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Re：3rd Afghan War Date Posted：28/05/2019 05:41:49Copy HTML On 28 May Afghan artillery bombarding Thal destroy the wireless station, the fuel depot and many railroad wagons. They also capture the water pumping station.
You're playing chess with Fate and Fate's winning.
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Re：3rd Afghan War Date Posted：01/06/2019 08:01:29Copy HTML On 1 June the British relief column nears the beleagured town of Thal. It is commanded by Brig-Gen Dyer the "villain" of the Amritsar Massacre just seven weeks earlier. 6000 Afghans block the route to Thal, but they are scattered by Dyer's artillery and by an infantry assault led by the 1/69th Punjabi Regt.
You're playing chess with Fate and Fate's winning.
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Re：3rd Afghan War Date Posted：02/06/2019 07:44:43Copy HTML On 2 June as Dyer prepares for the assault on Thal he receives a message from the Afghan commander in the town, Nadir Khan that he has been instructed by King Amanullah to suspend hostilities pending armistice talks. Dyer replies that he will attack anyway, so Khan hastily abandons Thal and retires three miles to the west.
You're playing chess with Fate and Fate's winning.
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Re：3rd Afghan War Date Posted：03/06/2019 05:49:28Copy HTML On 3 June advance Dyer's troops enter Thal to find it abandoned by the Afghans, a full scale occupation of the town is planned for the following day.
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Re：3rd Afghan War Date Posted：04/06/2019 05:37:10Copy HTML On 4 June the British formally occupy Thal, they find it has been totally looted by the inhabitants and retreating Afghans. You're playing chess with Fate and Fate's winning.
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Re：3rd Afghan War Date Posted：08/08/2019 07:57:33Copy HTML After the capture of Thal in early June an armistice was agreed and fighting pretty much ended beyond skirmishing and air attacks by the RAF. A final peace treaty was signed 100 years ago today on 8 August 1919 - the Treaty of Rawalpindi.
The terms were quite simple, GB recognized Afghan independence and pledged not to extend the borders of British India beyond the Khyber Pass. Afghanistan was forbidden to import arms and ammunition through British India and the British subsidies paid to Afghanistan would end. It was a tactical victory for GB but more of a strategic victory for the Afghans.
The war had coat around 1000 Afghan lives plus an unknown number who died of disease or in accidents. The British lost 1136 of which 236 were killed in action, the rest of disease or in accidents.
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