Louis Haghe - The wild pass of Siri Kajoor
Summary
Illustration shows Baluchi snipers on cliff observing the Army of the Indus and Indian civilians, who traveled with the army, going through the Bōlan Pass in the Toba Kakar Mountains, Pakistan, en route to Afghanistan; sepoys above the Baluchis prepare to fire at them.
Lithograph by Louis and Charles Haghe after drawing by James Atkinson.
Illus. in: Sketches in Afghaunistan, by Jas. Atkinson, Esq. London : Henry Graves & Company ... and W.H. Allen & Co., 1842, plate 6.
James Atkinson travelled with the Army of the Indus, Bengal Division, as Superintending Surgeon during the First Anglo-Afghan War, through part of India (now Pakistan) into Afghanistan.
Tags
Date
01/01/1842
Location
afghanistan
Source
Library of Congress
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