Gandamak

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Gandamak is a village of Afghanistan, 35 miles (56 km) from Jalalabad on the old 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 of the 44th East Essex Regiment. It is also notable for the treaty of Gandamak, which was signed here on May 26, 1879 between the British government and His Highness Muhammad Yakub Khan, Amir of Afghanistan and its dependencies.

Gandamak is also the name of a famous dog kennel in Bratislava, Slovakia, which breeds Afghan Hounds.

[edit] External links

• Gandamak.com – official site of the dog breeding kennel in Slovakia.

This article incorporates text from the Encyclopædia Britannica Eleventh Edition, a publication now in the public domain.