3-057-152 - Heritage Art/Heritage Images

Sapper and Miners Bastion, Sherpur, Kabul, Afghanistan, c1879. Men of the Sapper and Miners unit in the compound, sitting against the wall while a number of soldiers stand guard. Sherpur was a protective compound situated to the north of the city of Kabul. The siege of the Sherpur Cantonment was a battle fought in December 1879, during the Second Anglo-Afghan War. British forces were besieged by Afghan troops, then repulsed an assault.