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Description: Detailed account of the battle fought in 1880, drawing extensively on eye-witness accounts.
British Empire: Forces: Campaigns: Afghanistan: Maiwand 1880 On 3rd July 1880 a British/Indian column of some 2700 fighting troops under Brigadier George Burrows set out from Kandahar. It consisted of one Infantry and one Cavalry Brigade on their way to support a force of 6000 British-equipped and allegedly friendly tribesmen in putting down a rebellion by one Ayub Khan. Ayub, the Governor of Herat, and his followers intended to replace the new Amir of Afghanistan, a British protege, at Kabul. In the event most of the 'friendly tribesmen' mutinied and went to join Ayub, leaving Burrows' force to face the approaching rebel army alone in countryside where every man's hand had suddenly turned against them.
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