Tuesday, November 21, 2006
This Day in History
On this day in 1878, the British begin a three column invasion of Afghanistan as the start of the two year Second Afghan War. The gist is they replace a Russian friendly leader with a British friendly ruler, lose about 2500 men, defeat the Afghans soundly near Kandahar in 1880 but still leave the country that year because of a change in the ruling political party (the Liberals) back home. Sounds vaguely familiar.
# posted by Roger Fraley @ 7:24 AM 
