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Anglo-Afghan War: The Pashtun fakir Saidullah leads an army of more than 10,000 to begin a siege of the British garrison in the Malakand Agency of the North West Frontier Province of India.
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Anglo-Afghan War
Topics referred to by the same term
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Malakand Agency
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