The sortie of the garrison of Jalalabad, Afghanistan, 1842. The isolated British outpost was besieged for five months at Jalalabad by the Afghans under Akbar Khan during the First Afghan War. After reinforcements arrived from India in 1842 the Afghans were heavily defeated in a battle outside the city. From Cassell's Illustrated History of England.

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