Last Stage in the Sudan

I. Battle of Omdurman, 2 Sep 1898

II. Fashoda

A. Jean Baptiste Marchand

B. Kitchener

Afghanistan Redux

I. Steady Russian Advance

II. “Masterly Inactivity”

III. Disraeli’s Government opts for activity

IV. Stoletov’s Mission to Kabul

V. Sher Ali’s refusal of a British Resident

VI. Lord Lytton’s response

A. Lancer expedition, Sep 1878

Preparations for War

I. Browne’s Peshawar Field Force

II. Stewart’s Qandahar Field Force

III. Roberts’s Punjab Frontier Force

IV. Reorganization and modernization of Afghan Army

A. “English Siege Train”

War, Part I

I. Browne and the fort of Ali Musjid

II. Roberts and Peiwar Kotal

A. Spin Gawi Pass

III. Sher Ali’s flight and death

IV. Yakub Khan’s accession, Feb 1879

V. Treaty of Gundamuk, 26 May 1879

War, Part II

I. Murder of Cavagnari

II. Roberts and the Kabul Field Force

III. Batle of Charasia, Oct 1879

IV. Siege of Kabul

A. Mahomed Jan

B. Sherpur

V. Batle of Maiwand, Aug 1880

A. Ayub Khan

B. Burrows

C. “Bobbie”

VI. Siegel of Kandahar

A. General Primrose

VII. Roberts’s “Kabul to Kandahar” march