Image: Storming Column entering Fortress at Ghuznee

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Description: From the UK National Army Museum: https://collection.nam.ac.uk/detail.php?acc=1971-02-33-480-4 "Lithograph from a volume of 14 coloured lithographs 'The Storming of Ghuznee and Kelat' by W Taylor after Lieutenant Thomas Wingate, 2nd Queen's Royal Regiment, 1839 (c). After forcing the Bolan Pass and capturing Kandahar without a fight, Sir John Keane's Army of the Indus advanced on the formidable Ghazni fortress. Protected by thick, 60-feet high walls it presented a major problem for the British who lacked heavy artillery. They were only able to capture it because Mohan Lal, a Kashmiri interpreter, spy and assistant to the political officer Captain Sir Alexander Burnes, managed to discover that one of the gates was poorly defended."
Title: Storming Column entering Fortress at Ghuznee
Credit: https://collection.nam.ac.uk/images/960/1016000-1016999/1016321.jpg
Author: W Taylor
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