SCENE OF MANY TURBULENT RAIDS. —The Khyber Pass, or gateway to Afghanistan, famed in many a story. The great Ghengiz Khan, Napoleon of Asia, was possibly in this vicinity in 1220, and it was used by his descendants, the Moghul Emperors Babur and Humayun. The British connection with the Pass dates from the first Afghan war in 1839, when a force of 10,000 penetrated it without serious loss. Khyber was used as a great military road, again, in 1842. In 1878 the Pass was again forced and the treaty which brought this struggle to a conclusion left the Khyber tribes nominally under British control.
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Sun (Auckland), Volume III, Issue 768, 14 September 1929, Page 21
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104SCENE OF MANY TURBULENT RAIDS.—The Khyber Pass, or gateway to Afghanistan, famed in many a story. The great Ghengiz Khan, Napoleon of Asia, was possibly in this vicinity in 1220, and it was used by his descendants, the Moghul Emperors Babur and Humayun. The British connection with the Pass dates from the first Afghan war in 1839, when a force of 10,000 penetrated it without serious loss. Khyber was used as a great military road, again, in 1842. In 1878 the Pass was again forced and the treaty which brought this struggle to a conclusion left the Khyber tribes nominally under British control. Sun (Auckland), Volume III, Issue 768, 14 September 1929, Page 21
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