Anglo AFghan War 1880:
Second afghan war empowered to supply Sher, Ali most of the terms he had asked for in 1873 provided he allowed a British resident to be stationed at Herat, Lytton had been sent to India to inaugurate a replacement afghan policy.
Early in 1877 at a conference at Peshawar with sir Lewis Pelly, Sher Ali,s minister Sayyad nor Muhammad, refused to conform to the position of a British officer in Afghanistan as it would weaken the position of the Amir himself.
Lytton was, from the start, working for the gradual disintegration and weeking of the afghan power” he had secured the occupation of Quetta by a treaty with khan of Kalat concluded in 1876 which gave the British people access to the Bolan pass, amongst the principal gateways to Afghanistan. By a confidential arrangement with the maharaja.
Kashmir, he now established a British agency at Gilgit in 1878 a Russian officer. General solicitor .. in Second afghan war arrived in Kabul with the draft treaty Recognizing” Abdullah jan as Amir’s heir and offering assistance with the case of foreign aggression. With the approval of the house government, Lytton now insisted on Sher Ali,s acceptance of an English mission.
afghan war The urgency of this demand was off from apparent. Stoleit off left Kabul when he came to grasp that the British intended to send a mission. However in September, Lytton dispatched a mission to Kabul under Arthur Neville chamberlain.
The repulse of the mission at Ali Masjid, a lonely post at the doorway of the Khyber pass, was followed by the nation incision of Afghanistan in November 1878. The British armies advanced through three different routes.
Browne through the Khyber pass, Roberts through Kurram valley and Stewart through the Bolan pass. Qandahar and Jalalabad were easily occupied. Having did not to get any help from General Kaufman Sher Ali fled into Russian Turkestan. He died early within the following may peace was made together with his son Yaqub khan by the treaty of Gunfmak.
Yaqub khan agreed to cede the districts of Kurrum, Pashin and Sibbi to people to conduct his relation with other states in accordance with the advise and desires of the Governor –general of British India, and to keep up a permanent British resident at Kabul, reciprocally British people engaged to pay yaqub an annual subsidy of six 1 lakhs of rupees and also the support him against foreign attack.
afghan war 1880 This easy surrender by yaqub khan wasn't liked by the afghans within six weeks of his arrival in Kabul a people resident, sir Louis cavagnari was murdered with the full of his escort.
This led to a renewal of British invasion, Donald Stewart reoccupied Qandahar. Roberts all over again marched through the kurrum valley and occupied Kabul on 7 October yaqub khan was removed to India as a state prisoner where he died in 1923.
Afghanistan now practically relapsed into anarchy there was no government left with which the British could negotiate peace. within the Kabul and Roberts was besieged at Sherpur by 100.000 tribesmen.Lytton’s Afghan polic,and weakened so carefully woven, has been rudely shattered last afghan war 1880.
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