‘View looking up gorge from below Sultan Tarra, showing Ali Musjid’, 1878 (b/w photo)

‘View looking up gorge from below Sultan Tarra, showing Ali Musjid and occupied by 3rd Brigade during the night of 21st November’, 1878. Photograph by John Burke, 2nd Afghan War (1878-1880), 1878. When the British invaded Afghanistan the Peshawar Valley Field Force, led by Lieutenant-General Sam Browne, captured the fort of Ali Masjid on 21 November 1878 in order to secure British control of the Khyber. Brigadier-General Frederick Appleyard’s 3rd Brigade, consisting of the 81st North Lancashire Regiment, 14th Sikhs and 27th Punjabis, formed one of the three columns that took part in the operation. From an album of 100 photographs by John Burke, 1878 circa.