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Surgeon Brydon, the sole survivor of 16,000 British troops, arriving exhausted at Jalalabad in 1842. Photogravure, 1908, after a painting by Lady Butler, 1879.

Execution by firing squad of a Ghazi, or Muslim militant, at the Peshawur Gate in Jellalabad during the Afghan War. Wood engraving by W.I. Mosses after W.H. Overend.

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Jalālābād (Afghanistan)

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Surgeon Brydon, the sole survivor of 16,000 British troops, arriving exhausted at Jalalabad in 1842. Photogravure, 1908, after a painting by Lady Butler, 1879.

Execution by firing squad of a Ghazi, or Muslim militant, at the Peshawur Gate in Jellalabad during the Afghan War. Wood engraving by W.I. Mosses after W.H. Overend.