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050	0	0	_aG7634. _bK25. _cW953 1880
100	1		_aWyld, James, _d1812-1887.
245	1	0	_aCandahar, Afghanistan / _cpublished by James Wyld, Geographer to the Queen.
255			_aScale : [1:12,000].
260			_a[Place of publication not identified] : _b[American Geographical Society Library], _c1880.
300			_a1 map ; _c31 x 23 cm.
500			_a“Shows gates and selected points of interest. Includes text”—upper right.
500			_a“Kandahar, Afghanistan : The city of Kandahar, or Candahar, was the site of the final battle of the Second Anglo-Afghan War (1878–80). Soldiers stationed at the British garrison at Kandahar met Afghan forces at nearby Maiwand, where on July 27, 1880, the two British and Indian brigades suffered a calamitous defeat. Retreating to Kandahar, the surviving British soldiers drove away the local population and took shelter behind the protective walls in preparation for the defense of city. Ayub Khan, the ruler of Herat and the victor at Maiwand, proceeded to lay siege to Kandahar in early August 1880. The Battle of Kandahar, which lasted until September 1, resulted in the defeat of the Afghan forces, thanks in part to fresh British reinforcements from Kabul. This map, by the famous British mapmaker James Wyld the younger (1812–87), dates from 1880 and includes text describing the city’s defenses. It is extremely detailed, showing individual groups of houses, the areas of the different trades, and markets. The fortified walls of the city, behind which the British forces took shelter during the battle, remained standing in parts until the early 20th century. The roughly rectangular layout of these fortifications can be traced in the modern city, where the walls have been replaced by streets and boulevards. Also noted on the map are the citadel (at the approximate site of the present-day governor’s and police compound of Kandahar) and the nearby tomb of Ahmad Shah Durrani (circa 1722–72), the founder of modern Afghanistan. Kandahar is an ancient and storied city that was frequently fought over by warring empires. Its recorded history goes back at least to the sixth century BC, when the city served as the administrative capital of the province of Arachosia in the Persian Empire”—copied from website.
500			_aThe Library of Congress donated copies of the digitized material (along with extensive bibliographic records) containing more than 163,000 pages of documents to ACKU, the collections that include thousands of historical, cultural, and scholarly materials dating from the early 1300s to the 1990s includes books, manuscripts, maps, photographs, newspapers and periodicals related to Afghanistan in Pushto, Dari, as well as in English, French, German, Russian and other European languages ACKU has a PDF copy of the item.
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651		0	_aKandahar (Afghanistan) – Maps.
651		0	_aContinent Asia.
651		0	_aCountry Afghanistan.
651		0	_aCity Kandahar.
856			_qPDF _uhttps://doi.org/10.29171/azu_acku_g7634_k25_w953_1880 _zScanned for ACKU.
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