The Third Anglo-Afghan War was a brief conflict fought in 1919, begun when the new Afghan emir Amanullah Khan invaded British India in an effort to assert full Afghan independence over foreign affairs following the death of his father. After several weeks of limited but sharp fighting along the frontier, the war ended with the Treaty of Rawalpindi in August 1919, by which Britain recognized full Afghan independence in the conduct of its own foreign relations, bringing to a close nearly a century of British control over Afghan foreign policy that had begun with the earlier Anglo-Afghan wars.
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CombatantsEmirate of Afghanistan; British Raj 1 OutcomeAnglo-Afghan Treaty of 1919 signed, granting Afghanistan full control of its foreign affairs 1 Classification
Conflict Type Third Anglo-Afghan War
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The British Army fought the brief 1919 Third Anglo-Afghan War, after which Afghanistan gained full independence in foreign affairs
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1. Third Anglo-Afghan War - Wikipedia
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The Third Anglo-Afghan War, also known as the Third Afghan War, the British-Afghan War of 1919, and in Afghanistan as the War of Liberation, was a short war which began on 3 May and ended on 8 August 1919.
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Emirate of Afghanistan
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The Anglo-Afghan Treaty of 1919 was signed on 8 August which resulted in the Afghans re-gaining de jure control of foreign affairs from Britain
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The new Emir of the Emirate of Afghanistan Amanullah Khan declared the holy war of Jihad against the British in the hope to proclaim full independence, as well as to strengthen his own legitimacy. Amanullah's forces invaded British India on three fronts taking advantage of the unrest in India, in an effort to seize the old Afghan provinces west of the Indus River.
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The Third Anglo-Afghan War, also known as the Third Afghan War, the British-Afghan War of 1919, and in Afghanistan as the War of Liberation, was a short war which began on 3 May and ended on 8 August 1919.
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