The British recognize Yaqub Khan as amir…

May 1879 CE

The British recognize Yaqub Khan as amir and enforce his signing of the unfavorable Treaty of Gandamak on May 26, 1879, signed at a British army camp near the village of Gandomak, about seventy miles east of Kabul.

By the terms of the treaty, Yaqub Khan permanently cedes the Afghan territories of Kurram, Khyber, Michni, Pishin, and Sibi.

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Kabul Kabol Afghanistan View →

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Mohammad Yaqub Khan View → Neville Bowles Chamberlain View → Robert Bulwer-Lytton View → Sher Ali Khan View →

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Britain (United Kingdom of Great Britain and Ireland) View → Afghanistan, (Barakzai) Emirate of View → British Raj; India (Indian Empire) View →

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Colonization of Asia, British View → Great Game, The View → Anglo-Afghan War, Second View →

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