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    Sherpur Cantonment, or the British Cemetery, is located in Kabul, Afghanistan. The area was a British military camp or cantonment and the site of the 1879...
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    Roberts marched into Kabul on 13 October. With Kabul itself vulnerable to attack, Roberts based his force in the unfinished Sherpur cantonment, a mile north...
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    Kabul is the capital city of Afghanistan. Located in the eastern half of the country, it is also a municipality, forming part of the Kabul Province; it...
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  • Sherpur may refer to: Sherpur Cantonment, Kabul Siege of the Sherpur Cantonment, 1879 Sherpur, Bangladesh Sherpur District, Mymensingh Division Sherpur...
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  • of the Sherpur Cantonment (December 1879), during the Second Anglo-Afghan War During the Afghan Civil War (1928–1929): First Battle of Kabul Second Battle...
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    Afghans, staged an uprising and attacked British forces near Kabul in the Siege of the Sherpur Cantonment in December 1879. The rebellion collapsed after...
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    Killing of Ayman al-Zawahiri (category 2022 in Kabul)
    to Taliban official Sirajuddin Haqqani, and located in Sherpur, a neighborhood in downtown Kabul. In early April 2022, Jonathan Finer, the deputy national...
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  • September: British residency attacked. October: British occupy Kabul. December: Siege of the Sherpur Cantonment. 1880 - Accession of Abdur Rahman Khan as Emir...
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  • The Kabul Airlift was an air evacuation of British and a number of European diplomatic staff and their families conducted by the Royal Air Force from...
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    Subahdar of Kabul from 1585 to 1586. He served in the Imperial Mughal Army under Emperor Akbar. Man Singh fought sixty-seven important battles in Kabul, Balkh...
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    The Kabul Field Force was a field force created in September 1879 during the Second Anglo-Afghan War, under the command of General Frederick Roberts....
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  • the north of Kabul. In short the forces of Mir bacha khan Kohdamani and Muhammad Jan khan wardak swept through Kabul and ended up in Sherpur where the Siege...
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    to Macpherson's Brigade during the December 1879 Siege of the Sherpur Cantonment at Kabul. On 11 December, Cook participated in the attempt to attack the...
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    became a British citizen in 1904. He died in Kabul on 26 October 1943 and is buried there in the Sherpur Cantonment. Stein, as well as his rivals Sven...
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  • Cemetery, Callao, Peru The British Cemetery Montevideo, Uruguay Sherpur Cantonment, Kabul, Afghanistan Golaghat British Cemetery, India Delhi War Cemetery...
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  • south of Brussels. The former Sherpur Cantonment in Kabul, Afghanistan, which was the site of the Siege of the Sherpur Cantonment (1879) in the Second...
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    Regiment (Kabul) 10th Engineer Regiment (Hussein Kut, Parwan) 5th Transport Regiment (Siah Sang Garrison, Kabul) 119th Transport Regiment (Sherpur Barracks...
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  • position at Kabul absolutely secure. A fort and blockhouse were erected on Siah Sang, the Bala Hissar and the Asmai Heights were fortified, Sherpur was converted...
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    لته بند, (elevation: 2,125 m or 6,972 ft) is a mountain pass connecting Kabul and Jalalabad on the way to Pakistan in the Karkacha hills between Seh Baba...
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    punitive actions and he occupied Kabul on 6 October 1879. After a popular uprising in December, Roberts withdrew to Sherpur where they were besieged for three...
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    occupied Kabul, and was given the local rank of lieutenant-general on 11 November 1879. In December 1879, Roberts' force was besieged in the Sherpur Cantonment...
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    Parachute Battalion was also established, being stationed in Sherpur District of Kabul. 2nd Lieutenant Habibullah served as the first commander of the...
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    conducted by the U.S. Central Intelligence Agency in the upscale Sherpur neighborhood of Kabul, reportedly in a house owned by a top aide to Sirajuddin Haqqani...
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  • thirty years, retiring as the regiment's colonel. He fought at Maidan, Kabul, Sherpur and Kandahar in the Afghan War of 1878–1880. He then served as military...
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    they had a daughter, Edith, who married Geoffry Northcote. Siege of the Sherpur Cantonment Dictionary of Indian Biography (1906) Who Was Who, 1897–1916...
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    return to deal with a rebellious Usman Khan whom he defeated in 1601 in Sherpur followed by defeating Kedar Rai in Dacca. By 1604, Bengal was again completely...
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    Wardak staged an uprising and attacked British forces near Kabul in the Siege of the Sherpur Cantonment in December 1879, but his defeat there resulted...
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  • resumed in late 1879, he joined the Kabul Field Force, and owing to his preparations, Lord Roberts found in the Sherpur Cantonment when it was invested:...
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  • Intelligence Agency in Kabul. The Taliban said that the strike was conducted on a residential house in the Sherpur area of Kabul. The New York Times, citing...
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    reasons. 1. Jwala Devi Jobner 2. Jayanti Kali Temple 3. Asamai Devi Temple in Kabul, Afghanistan There are disputes about the location of the Jayanti Shakti...
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