Afghan–Sikh Wars: Difference between revisions

{{main|Battle of Jamrud}}The [[Battle of Jamrud]] was the fifth and foremost battle within the third Afghan–Sikh war. The Afghans had been losing their long held territories to Sikhs over the preceding years, and had seen their once mighty empire shrink with the loss of the Punjab region, Multan, Kashmir and Khyber Pakhtunkhwa. The loss of Peshawar was the most personal as the inhabitants of the region were fellow Pashtuns and the city was the winter capital of Afghanistan, so the Afghans set to reclaim it.<ref>{{Cite book|last=Farwell|first=Byron|url=https://www.worldcat.org/oclc/42009346|title=The encyclopedia of nineteenth-century land warfare : an illustrated world view|date=2001|publisher=W.W. Norton|isbn=0-393-04770-9|location=New York|oclc=42009346}}</ref>