Battle of Jellalabad

Battle of Jellalabad
	Part of the First Anglo-Afghan War
	; The British troops (right) attack the Afghan line (illustration from a British book)
Date	12 November 1841 – 13 April 1842
Location	Jalalabad
Result	British victory
Belligerents
British Empire; East India Company	Afghans and Ghilzai tribesmen
Commanders and leaders
Brigadier Sir Robert Sale	Akbar Khan
Strength
1,500 Anglo-Indian troops	5,000 tribal warriors
Casualties and losses
62 troops, including Colonel Dennie	Unknown, possibly heavy

The Battle of Jellalabad in 1842 was an Afghan siege of the isolated British outpost at Jellalabad (now Jalalabad), about 90 miles (140 km) east of Kabul during the First Anglo-Afghan War. The siege was lifted after five months when a British counterattack routed the Afghans, driving them back to Kabul.

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