1-624-849 - The Print Collector/Heritage Images

Arrival of Dr Brydon at Jalalabad with news of 16,500 British deaths, First Anglo-Afghan War, 13 January 1842, (1900). Engraving after 'Remnants of an Army', a painting of 1879, showing William Brydon arriving at the gates of Jalalabad in Afghanistan as the only survivor of an evacuation of British personnel. The 4,500 British soldiers and 12,000 camp-followers who left Kabul on 6 January were all massacred.