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'Battle of Kandahar - "The 92nd Are To Take The Guns"', (1901). The Battle of Kandahar in southern Afghanistan was fought on 1 September 1880 between the British under General Frederick Sleigh Roberts and Afghan forces led by Ayub Khan. It was the last major conflict of the Second Anglo-Afghan War. The 92nd Highlanders are seen advancing, with a piper in the foreground. After a painting made before 1899. From "The Life and Deeds of Earl Roberts, Vol. III. - To The End of Lord Roberts's Indian Career", by J. Maclaren Cobban. [T. C. & E. C. Jack, Edinburgh, 1901] (KEYSTONE/HERITAGE IMAGES/The Print Collector)