Dr. William Brydon and the Massacre of Elphinstone's Army

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On this day in history, 1842, Dr. William Brydon, who had part of his skull sheared off at the time, rode an exhausted horse into the British garrison at Jalalabad, Afghanistan. When asked where the rest of the army was, he replied “I am the army”. In fact, he wasn’t actually the sole survivor, as he thought, but was pretty close to it. The few other survivors tended to be certain high ranking officers and some of their wives who were captured and held prisoner.

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https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/William_George_Keith_Elphinstone#/media/File:General_William_Elphinstone.JPG
https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:Kabul_during_the_First_Anglo-Afghan_War_1839-42.jpg
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Wazir_Akbar_Khan#/media/File:Prince_Akbar_Khan.jpg
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