Wazir akbar khan biography of abraham

Wazīr Akbar Khān, born as Mohammad Akbar Khān and also known as Amīr Akbar Khān, was an Afghan prince, general, and finally emir for about three years until his death.

Career

Wazir Akbar Khan was militarily active in the First Anglo-Afghan War, which lasted from 1839 to 1842. He is prominent for his leadership of the national party in Kabul from 1841 to 1842, and his massacre of Elphinstone"s army at the Gandamak pass before the only survivor, the assistant surgeon William Brydon, reached the besieged garrison at Jalalabad on 13 January 1842.

Wazir Akbar Khan became the emir of Afghanistan in May 1842, and ruled until his death in 1845.

Akbar was born as Mohammad Akbar Khan in 1816 to Emir Dost Mohammad Barakzai of Afghanistan and Mermən Khadija Popalzai.

With this letter, Dost Mohammad formally set the stage for British intervention in Afghanistan.

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