Battle of Jamrud

Battle of Jamrud
	Part of the Afghan-Sikh wars
	; A portrait of the Jamrud Fort
Date	30 April 1837
Location	Jamrud, Sikh Empire; Modern day Khyber Agency34°00′12″N 71°22′43″E / 34.0034°N 71.3786°E
Result	Disputed
Belligerents
Emirate of Kabul	Sikh Empire
Commanders and leaders
Akbar Khan; Afzal Khan; Shams al-Din Khan; Mirza Sami Khan; Josiah Harlan	Hari Singh Nalwa †; Mahan Singh Mirpuri; Mangal Singh Ramgarhia; Tej Singh
Strength
7,000 cavalry; 2,000 matchlockmen; 9,000 guerilla fighters; 20,000 Khybers; 50 pieces artillery	600–800 Jamrud garrison; 10,000 relief force/reinforcements
Casualties and losses
Grewal:; 11,000 Afghans Gupta:; 7,000 Afghans	Grewal:; 6,000 Sikhs Gupta:; 7,000 Sikhs
	class=notpageimage\| Location within Pakistan

The Battle of Jamrud was fought between the Emirate of Afghanistan under Emir Dost Mohammad Khan and the Sikh Empire under Maharaja Ranjit Singh on 30 April 1837. Afghan forces confronted the Sikh forces at Jamrud. The garrisoned army was able to hold off the Afghans till Sikh reinforcements arrived to relieve them.^[6]^[7]^[8]^[9]

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^ ^a ^b Gupta 1978, p. 179.
^ K K Khanna (2015). Art of Generalship. Vij Books India Pvt. p. 130. ISBN 9789382652939.
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^ ^a ^b Gupta 1978, p. 181.
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^ Dalrymple, William (2012). Return of a King: The Battle For Afghanistan (Paperback ed.). United Kingdom: Bloomsbury. ISBN 9780307948533.
^ Gupta, Hari Ram (1978). History Of The Sikhs Vol. V The Sikh Lion of Lahore. Vol. V. Munshiram Manoharlal. p. 180. ISBN 9788121505154.