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Gandamak
1911 Encyclopedia Britannica
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a village of Afghanistan, 35 m. from Jalalabad on the road to Kabul. On the retreat from Kabul of General Elphinstone's army in 1842, a hill near Gandamak was the scene of the massacre of the last survivors of the force, twenty officers and forty-five British soldiers. It is also notable for the treaty of Gandamak, which was signed here in 1879 with Yakub Khan. (See AFGHANISTAN.)
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Chisholm, Hugh, General Editor. Entry for 'Gandamak'. 1911 Encyclopedia Britanica. https://www.studylight.org/encyclopedias/eng/bri/g/gandamak.html. 1910.
Chisholm, Hugh, General Editor. Entry for 'Gandamak'. 1911 Encyclopedia Britanica. https://www.studylight.org/encyclopedias/eng/bri/g/gandamak.html. 1910.
