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MAIWAND

This article appears in Volume V17, Page 448 of the Encyclopedia Britannica.

Encyclopedia Britannica - Main :: LUP-MAL
MAIWAND , a
village
  of Afghanistan, 50 M. N.W. of Kandahar. It is chiefly notable for the defeat inflicted on a British brigade under General Burrows by Ayub
Khan
  on the 27th of July 188o during the second Afghan War (see AFGHANISTAN). Ayub
Khan
 , Shere Ali's younger son, who had been hglding Herat during the British operations at Kabul and Kandahar, set out towards Kandahar with a small army in June 188o, and a brigade under General Burrows was detached from Kandahar to oppose him. Burrows advanced to the Helmund, opposite Girishk, to oppose Ayub Khan, but was there deserted by the troops of Shere Ali, the wali of Kandahar, and forced to
retreat
  to
Kushk
 -i-Nakhud, half way to Kandahar. In order to prevent Ayub passing to Ghazni, Burrows advanced to Maiwand on the 27th of July, and attacked Ayub, who had already seized that place. The Afghans, who numbered 25,000, out-flanked the British, the artillery expended their ammunition, and the native portion of the Brigade got out of hand and pressed back on the few British
infantry
 . The British were
completely routed, and had to thank the apathy of the Afghans for escaping
total
  annihilation. Of the 2476 British troops engaged, 934 were killed and 175 wounded or missing. This defeat necessitated Sir Frederick Roberts' famous
march
  from Kabul to Kandahar.
See Lord Roberts,
Forty
 -one Years in India (1896).


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