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246: Captured By The Afghans: Lady Sale & The British Prisoners
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Exclusive bonus episodes each month.Lady Sale and the British Captives in Afghanistan 1842.
This is a exclusive members-only video which follows up on the episode about the Retreat From Kabul in 1842.
During that British retreat during the First Anglo Afghan war, a column of 16,000 people was almost entirely wiped out.
Almost...but not entirely.
Some 125 British officers, soldiers and civilians (including 20 children) were taken prisoner by the the Afghans.
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