The Battle of Kandahar was fought between the Afghan/Pashtun forces and Shah Shuja Durrani in 1834.[1][2][3] Dost Muhammad Khan defeated Shah Shuja Durrani, Ranjit Singh, and imprisoned William Campbell.[4][1][5]
| Battle of Kandahar (1834) | |||||||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Part of the Afghan-Sikh Wars | |||||||
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| Belligerents | |||||||
 Sikh Empire Durrani Empire East India Company | Emirate of Afghanistan | ||||||
| Commanders and leaders | |||||||
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Ranjit Singh Shah Shuja Durrani William Campbell (POW) | Dost Muhammad Khan | ||||||
| Strength | |||||||
| 30,000[6] | unknown | ||||||
| Casualties and losses | |||||||
| Heavy | Light casualties | ||||||
The Battle
The battle was fought on 1 May 1834, near Kandahar.[7][8] The battle continued for 52 days and Shah Shuja Durrani failed to captured Kandahar. Later Dost Mohammad Khan's forces regrouped and attacked Shah Shuja's army, inflicting heavy losses on them and Shah Shuja retreated to Lahore with his remaining followers while William Campbell was imprisoned.[9][10]
Aftermath
Shah Shuja was forced to retreat to India with a small group of loyal followers.[11] The battle of Kandahar in 1834 was a setback for Shah Shuja's ambitions to reclaim the throne of Afghanistan.[12]
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- ^ Harlan, Josiah (1842). A Memoir of India and Avghanistaun: With Observations on the Present Exciting and Critical State and Future Prospects of Those Countries. Comprising Remarks on the Massacre of the British Army in Cabul ... J. Dobson.
- ^ Journal of the Asiatic Society of Bengal. Asiatic Society of Bengal. 1881. p. 84.
- ^ Jalali, Ali Ahmad (2017-03-17). A Military History of Afghanistan: From the Great Game to the Global War on Terror. University Press of Kansas. p. 97. ISBN 978-0-7006-2407-2.
- ^ MacMunn, George Fletcher (2002). Afghanistan: From Darius to Amanullah. Sang-e-Meel Publications. ISBN 978-969-35-1315-8.
- ^ Imperial Gazetteer of India. Clarendon Press. 1908. p. 376.
- ^ History Today. 2001. p. 14.