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http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/First_Anglo-Afghan_War

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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.

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

Total how many wars were fought between afghanistan and UK?