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What is Burns Mission?

Who was the winner of the war? Afghanistan or British.

It is also known as Auckland's Folly and was fought between British India and Afghanistan from 1839-1842.

What is Burnes mission ? can anyone explain me?

First Afghan War (also known as Auckland's Folly) was fought between the British East India Company and Afghanistan from 1839 to 1842; 4,500 British and Indian soldiers, plus 12,000 of their camp followers, were killed by Afghan tribal fighters. It was one of the first major conflicts during the Great Game, the 19th century competition for power and influence in Asia between the United Kingdom and the Russian Empire.

Total how many wars were fought between afghanistan and UK?

The First Anglo-Afghan War is also known as Auckland's Folly.

First Afghan War.

Date: January 1842.

Place: Central Afghanistan.

Combatants: British and Indians of the Bengal Army and the army of Shah Shuja against Afghans and Ghilzai tribesmen.

The Afgan war is the Afghanistani war fought in 1839.

With the failure of the Burnes mission (1837), the governor general of India, Lord Auckland, ordered an invasion of Afghanistan, with the object of restoring shah Shuja (also Shoja), who had ruled Afghanistan from 1803 to 1809. From the point of the view of the British, the First Anglo-Afghan War (often called "Auckland's Folly") was an unmitigated disaster. The war demonstrated the ease of overrunning Afghanistan and the difficulty of holding it.

An army of British and Indian troops set out from the Punjab in December 1838 and by late March 1839 had reached Quetta.

The First Anglo-Afghan War is also known as Auckland's Folly. Most of the British troops and casualties were India.