Battle of Jalalabad (1842)
34°25′49″N 70°27′10″E / 34.43028°N 70.45278°E
| Battle of Jellalabad | |||||||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Part of the First Anglo-Afghan War | |||||||
The British troops (right) attack the Afghan line (illustration from a British book) | |||||||
| |||||||
| Belligerents | |||||||
| Commanders and leaders | |||||||
|
Sir Robert Sale William Dennie † | Wazir Akbar Khan | ||||||
| Strength | |||||||
| Unknown, but outnumbered | Unknown, but outnumbered the British | ||||||
.svg){kind=link}
The Battle of Jalalabad in 1842 was an Afghan siege of the isolated British outpost at Jalalabad, about 90 miles (140 km) east of Kabul during the First Anglo-Afghan War. The siege was lifted after five months when a British counterattack routed the Afghans, driving them back to Kabul.