Title

The Final Attack at the Spingawi Khotal', (1901).

Caption

'The Final Attack at the Spingawi Khotal', (1901). At the Battle of Peiwar Kotal, November 1878, during the Second Afghan War, British forces under General Frederick Roberts seized the strategic Peiwar Kotal Pass between Afghanistan and India, (now Pakistan). From "The Life and Deeds of Earl Roberts, Vol. II. - To The Abdication of Yakub Khan", by J. Maclaren Cobban. [T. C. & E. C. Jack, Edinburgh, 1901]

Date

1901

Credit line

Photo12/Heritage Images/The Print Collector

Reference

HRM19F15_192

Model release

No

License type

Rights managed

Available size

60,8Mb (2,9Mb) / 18,4in x 12,9in / 5512 x 3858 (300dpi)

Keywords

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