khyber-jellalabad

Updated: July 12, 2025

Promptitude of advance on the part of the force to which had been assigned the line of invasion by the Khyber-Jellalabad route, was of scarcely less moment than the rapidity of the stroke which Roberts was commissioned to deliver. The former's was a treble duty.

Archibald Forbes - The Afghan Wars 1839-42 and 1878-80