Wazir Akbar Khan
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Mohammad Akbar Khan Barakzai, famously known as Wazir Akbar Khan, was a Barakzai prince and military commander who served as Emir of Afghanistan from December 1842 to April 1843. He also served as viz
A drawing of Akbar Khan by Vincent Eyre
Portrait of Akbar Khan on horseback in the Illustrated London News, 1842
Wazir Akbar Khan Grave.
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
Wazir Akbar Khan
…father, Emir Dost Mohammad Khan, until his death in 1847. Wazir Akbar Khan's fame began with the 1837 Battle of Jamrud. He was militarily active in the First Anglo-Afghan War, which lasted from 1839 to 1842. He is prominent for his leadership of the national party in Kabul from 1841 to 1842, and his massacre of Elphinstone's…
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.