Jezail
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The jezail, also spelled juzail, is a long-barrelled weapon used in Central Asia, British India, and parts of Middle East. A person operating it is called jazailchi.
Lithograph dated during the First Anglo-Afghan War of a Tajik warrior (Kohistani) and his jezail.
The elite jazayerchi unit shoot from a hill as Nader Shah's forces push the Ottoman army back at the Battle of Yeghevārd.
Afghan foot soldiers in 1841.
Group of Pashtun Tribesmen (Afridi) fighters in 1878, pictured with their jezails, during the Second Anglo-Afghan War.
First Anglo-Afghan War
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The First Anglo-Afghan War was fought between the Durranis backed by the British Empire and the Sikh Empire, and the Barakzais of Kabul and Kandahar, alongside their regional allies, from 1838 to 1842
Jezail
…during the Naderian Wars. It was the main weapon used by Pashtun tribesmen of Afghanistan in the 19th-century, who deposed Shah Shuja and fought in the First and Second Anglo-Afghan Wars. Jezails (in Afghanistan) were often handmade weapons. That means, unlike other weapons of the time which were plain and…
Lithograph depicting British-Indian force storming the fortress during the Battle of Ghazni, 23 July 1839
Sir-I-Khajur in the Bolan Pass, 1839
The Opening in to the Narrow Path above the Siri Bolan from James Atkinson's Sketches in Afghaunistan
Dost Mohammad Khan's surrender in 1840 following his victory at Parwan Darra.