4/4 From Last August to this February: The long, long Anglo-Afghan war. Anatol Lieven @QuincyInst, Georgetown University @LievenAnatol
Feb 14, 2022, 12:48 AM
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This shot, showing members of the Afridi tribe with guns, is from an album of rare historical photographs of people and sites associated with the Second Anglo-Afghan War. The Afridis are Pashtun Afghans belonging to the Karlanis tribal confederation. These two groups fought against and with the British in Afghanistan during the three Anglo-Afghan wars. [More:see below, at the end.]
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4/4 From Last August to this February: The long, long Anglo-Afghan war. Anatol Lieven @QuincyInst, Georgetown University @LievenAnatol
Afghanistan evacuation: Investigation details U.S. military’s frustration with White House, diplomats - The Washington Post
https://www.washingtonpost.com/national-security/2022/02/08/afghanistan-evacuation-investigation/
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The British often classified the peoples they conquered according to fixed personal characteristics or "racial" traits. They considered the Punjabi Sikhs and Afghan Afridi tribesmen to be "warrior" peoples. Different clans of Afridis cooperated with British forces in return for grants, and some even served with the Khyber Infantry Regiment, an auxiliary force of the British Indian Army. Jamrūd here refers to Jamrūd Fort, strategically located at the eastern entrance to the Khyber Pass in present-day Pakistan. The Second Anglo-Afghan War began in November 1878 when Britain, feeling threatened by growing Russian influence in Afghanistan, invaded the country from British India. The first phase of the war ended in 1879 with the Treaty of Gandamak, which allowed the Afghans to retain their national sovereignty, but forced them to cede control of their foreign policy to the British. Fighting resumed in September 1879, following an anti-British uprising in Kabul, and finally ended in September 1880 with the decisive Battle of Kandahar. The album contains portraits of British and Afghan leaders and servicemen, as well as ordinary Afghans, as well as depictions of British military camps and activities, structures, landscapes, and towns and villages. The sites photographed are all located in the territory of present-day Afghanistan or Pakistan (part of British India at the time). About a third of the photographs were taken by John Burke (circa 1843–1900), another third by Sir Benjamin Simpson (1831–1923), and the remainder by several other photographers. The authors of some pictures are not identified. Although this theory was never confirmed, the album was probably compiled by a member of the Indo-British government, and the circumstances of its arrival in the collections of the Library of Congress remain unknown.
This shot, showing members of the Afridi tribe with guns, is from an album of rare historical photographs of people and sites associated with the Second Anglo-Afghan War. The Afridis are Pashtun Afghans belonging to the Karlanis tribal confederation. These two groups fought against and with the British in Afghanistan during the three Anglo-Afghan wars. [More:see below, at the end.]
@Batchelorshow
4/4 From Last August to this February: The long, long Anglo-Afghan war. Anatol Lieven @QuincyInst, Georgetown University @LievenAnatol
Afghanistan evacuation: Investigation details U.S. military’s frustration with White House, diplomats - The Washington Post
https://www.washingtonpost.com/national-security/2022/02/08/afghanistan-evacuation-investigation/
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[More}
The British often classified the peoples they conquered according to fixed personal characteristics or "racial" traits. They considered the Punjabi Sikhs and Afghan Afridi tribesmen to be "warrior" peoples. Different clans of Afridis cooperated with British forces in return for grants, and some even served with the Khyber Infantry Regiment, an auxiliary force of the British Indian Army. Jamrūd here refers to Jamrūd Fort, strategically located at the eastern entrance to the Khyber Pass in present-day Pakistan. The Second Anglo-Afghan War began in November 1878 when Britain, feeling threatened by growing Russian influence in Afghanistan, invaded the country from British India. The first phase of the war ended in 1879 with the Treaty of Gandamak, which allowed the Afghans to retain their national sovereignty, but forced them to cede control of their foreign policy to the British. Fighting resumed in September 1879, following an anti-British uprising in Kabul, and finally ended in September 1880 with the decisive Battle of Kandahar. The album contains portraits of British and Afghan leaders and servicemen, as well as ordinary Afghans, as well as depictions of British military camps and activities, structures, landscapes, and towns and villages. The sites photographed are all located in the territory of present-day Afghanistan or Pakistan (part of British India at the time). About a third of the photographs were taken by John Burke (circa 1843–1900), another third by Sir Benjamin Simpson (1831–1923), and the remainder by several other photographers. The authors of some pictures are not identified. Although this theory was never confirmed, the album was probably compiled by a member of the Indo-British government, and the circumstances of its arrival in the collections of the Library of Congress remain unknown.