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GANDAMAK

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Originally appearing in Volume V11, Page 450 of the 1911 Encyclopedia Britannica.
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GANDAMAK , a See also:

village of See also:Afghanistan, 35 M. from See also:Jalalabad on the road to See also:Kabul. On the See also:retreat from Kabul of See also:General See also:Elphinstone's See also:army in 1842, a See also:hill near Gandamak was the See also:scene . of the See also:massacre of the last survivors of the force, twenty See also:officers and See also:forty-five See also:British soldiers. It is also notable for the treaty of Gandamak, which was signed here in 1879 with Yakub See also:Khan.

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