Akbar Khan

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Mohammad Akbar Khan (?-1849) was an Afghan general. He was active in the First Anglo-Afghan War, which lasted from 1839-1842. He is prominent for his siege of Kabul from 1841-1842, and of Gandomak near Jalalabad in 1842. The First Anglo-Afghan War lasted from 1839 to 1842. ... Kabul (34°32′ N 69°10′ E, Kâbl, in Persian کابل) is the capital and largest city of Afghanistan with a population variously estimated at 2 to 4 million. ... Jalalabad (Persian: Jalālābād) is the capital of Nangarhar province in Afghanistan, 150 km east of Kabul near the Khyber Pass. ...

Akbar was the son of Dost Mohammed Khan, and he led a revolt in Kabul against the British mission of William McNaughten, Alexander 'Sekundar' Burnes and their garrison of 4, 500 men in November of 1841, he murdered the two British agents and besieged Maj. Gen. Mountstuart Elphinstone's force in Kabul, he accepted the General's surrender on January 6th, 1842 and granted the small army and about 12,000 refugees safe conduct to India, he later surrounded this force at Gandomak on the Khyber Pass road, and massacred it after a brief battle on January 15th. He later survived the subsequent British invasion, and died peacefully in 1849. Dost Mahommed Khan (1793 - June 9, 1863) founded the Barakzai dynasty in Afghanistan. ... Sir William Hay Macnaghten, Bart. ... Sir Alexander Burnes (1805 - November 2, 1841) was a British traveller and explorer. ... Mountstuart Elphinstone (1779 - November 20, 1859) was a Scottish statesman and historian, associated with the British government of India. ... The Khyber Pass (also called the Khaiber Pass in old documents) is the most important pass connecting Pakistan with Afghanistan. ...