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#OTD in September 1879, The Afghan troops mutinied and killed the British envoy Louis Cavagnari at Kabul. along with his 70-men escort, and their bodies were dumped in a mass grave.
The murder of Cavagnari sparked the 2nd phase of the 2nd-Anglo-Afghan war - a war that the British
The murder of Cavagnari sparked the 2nd phase of the 2nd-Anglo-Afghan war - a war that the British
started for no good reason but only out of their colonial pride, ego and greed. There is no explanation till this date that what faults of the Afghans angered the British so much that it merited an invasion of their country, for a 2nd time in 40 years.
After their success against an unprepared Afghan army, the British signed a 'friendly' agreement that otherwise is quite notorious & disliked by the Afghans and is known as #TreatyOfGandamak.
The murder of the British envoy wounded the ego of the British.
The murder of the British envoy wounded the ego of the British.
#OTD in May 1879, the British forced the Afghans into signing the infamous #TreatyOfGandamak after invading them for the mere reason that Afghans had refused to accept a British envoy while they accepted a Russian envoy in Kabul.
Brief Thread.
Brief Thread.
Imperialists & colonialists have always invented excuses for their encroachment into foreign lands. Mutual Defense, Liberation, Democracy, Weapons of Mass Destruction, Establishing Friendship are some of these excuses. The 2nd Anglo-Afghan war was also waged on one such excuses.
The British were acting on their bloody #GreatGame in Afghanistan to counter the Russians, their influence & the perceived threat of their invasion of British India. In 1839, they had already tried, but badly failed, to install their man Shah Shuja with the help of the Sikhs.
