Battle of Jellalabad

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Date	12 November 1841 - 13 April 1842
Location	North Eastern Afghanistan
Result	British Victory

Belligerents

British Empire
The army of Shah Shuja

Afghans and Ghilzai tribesmen

Commanders

Brigadier Sir Robert Sale

Ameer Akbar Khan

Strength

1,500 Anglo-Indian troops

5,000 tribal warriors

Casualties and losses

62 troops, including Colonel Dennie

Unknown

First Anglo-Afghan War

Ghazni – Elphinstone – Gandamak – Jellalabad – Kabul

The Battle of Jellalabad was an Afghan siege of the isolated British outpost at Jellalabad (now Jalalabad) about 80 miles (130 km) east of Kabul. The siege was lifted after five months when a British counterattack routed the Afghans, driving them back to Kabul.

The outpost was little more than a wide place in the road with a fort, held by about 2,000 troops under General Sir Robert Sale. After the massacre of the British force in Kabul, Jellallabad was surrounded by Afghan forces which launched a series of attacks on the force. The British managed to beat off the assaults, and even captured 300 sheep from the besieging force when rations ran short. Eventually, after five months under siege, Sale mounted an attack against the Afghan forces, captured their main camp, baggage, stores, guns, and horses and the Afghans fled to Kabul.