'The Final Attack at the Spingawi Khotal', (1901). Creator: William Heysham Overend.


'The Final Attack at the Spingawi Khotal', (1901). At the Battle of Peiwar Kotal, November 1878, during the Second Afghan War, British forces under General Frederick Roberts seized the strategic Peiwar Kotal Pass between Afghanistan and India, (now Pakistan). From "The Life and Deeds of Earl Roberts, Vol. II. - To The Abdication of Yakub Khan", by J. Maclaren Cobban. [T. C. & E. C. Jack, Edinburgh, 1901]


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