Why Some Wars Never End by Joseph Cummins

Author:Joseph Cummins [Cummins, Joseph]
Language: eng
Format: epub, mobi
Publisher: Rockport Publishers
Published: 2010-04-17T23:00:00+00:00

U.S. troops travel by boat as Seminoles hide on the shore during the Seminole Wars in Florida in this circa 1845 painting by John F. Clymer. The conflict led to the near extinction of the Seminoles.

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CHAPTER 9

THE ANGLO-AFGHAN WARS

“THE GREAT GAME”

1839–1919

This fifty-year-long war began in 1839 when the British attempted to remove an Afghan emir, fearing the Russian influence over him. The bloody war that broke out waged throughout the nineteenth century and saw Great Britain facing similar difficulties to what the Russians and Americans have faced in the twentieth and twenty-first centuries.

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