2-710-974 - The Print Collector/Heritage Images

'The Peiwar Khotal', 1878, (1901). 'The point of view is from No.2 Mountain Battery Camp. A gun of the enemy was placed upon the end of the central spur. The "Khotal" is up the dark passage to the right of the spur. Drawing by W. McCracken, Magi and Dakaiti Department, India, from a sketch made the day before the attack.' View of the Peiwar Kotal Pass between Pakistan and Afghanistan, scene of the Battle of Peiwar Kotal, fought on 28-29 November 1878 between British forces under Sir Frederick Sleigh Roberts and Afghan forces under Karim Khan, during the opening stages of the Second Anglo-Afghan War. The British won the battle and seized the strategic Pass. From "The Life and Deeds of Earl Roberts, Vol. II. - To The Abdication of Yakub Khan", by J. Maclaren Cobban. [T. C. & E. C. Jack, Edinburgh, 1901]