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Holy Shit Afghanistan just sent England home from (Original Post) malaise Feb 2025 OP
From the Guardian malaise Feb 2025 #1
It's Khyber Pass all over again ... eppur_se_muova Feb 2025 #2
This was just a cricket match malaise Feb 2025 #3

eppur_se_muova

(42,500 posts)
2. It's Khyber Pass all over again ...
Wed Feb 26, 2025, 03:10 PM
Feb 2025

This Day In History: January 13

1842
After massacre, sole surviving British soldier escapes Kabul


On January 13, 1842, a British army doctor reaches the British sentry post at Jalalabad, Afghanistan, the lone survivor of a 16,000-strong Anglo-Indian expeditionary force that was massacred in its retreat from Kabul. He told of a terrible massacre in the Khyber Pass, in which the Afghans gave the defeated Anglo-Indian force and their camp followers no quarter.

https://www.history.com/this-day-in-history/sole-british-soldier-escapes-kabul

malaise

(297,921 posts)
3. This was just a cricket match
Wed Feb 26, 2025, 03:22 PM
Feb 2025

😀
By the way the vast majority of the British. Colonialists and their Indian lackeys were monsters.

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