First Anglo-Afghan War
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The <entity_1> (Pashto: د افغان-انگرېز لومړۍ جګړه‎, also known by the British as the Disaster in <entity_2>) was fought between the British Empire and the <entity_0> from 1839 to 1842. On <entity_3> 1838 Lord Auckland issued the Simla Declaration attacking Dost Mohammed Khan for making "an unprovoked attack" on the empire of "our ancient ally, Maharaja Ranjeet Singh", going on to declare that Suja Shah was "popular throughout <entity_2>" and would enter his former realm "surrounded by his own troops and be supported against foreign interference and factious opposition by the British Army". Ranjit Singh, the elderly and ailing Maharaja of the Punjab was supposed to contribute several divisions from the Dal Khalsa to the Grand Army of the Indus, but reneged on his promises, guessing that the Anglo-Indian force was sufficient to depose his archenemy Dost Mohammad, and he did not wish to occur the expenses of a <entity_4> with <entity_2>. <entity_2> had no army, and instead had a feudal system under which the chiefs would maintain a certain number of armed retainers, principally cavalry together with a number of tribesmen who could be called upon to fight in a time of <entity_4>; when the Emir went to <entity_4>, he would call upon his chiefs to bring out their men to fight for him. In the three decades after the <entity_1>, the Russians did advance steadily southward towards <entity_2>.
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