Peshawur Gate, Jellalabad City and surroundings.


Photograph with a view of the city of Jalalabad in the Nangarhar province of Afghanistan, taken by John Burke in 1878. Burke accompanied the Peshawar Valley Field Force, one of three British Anglo-Indian army columns deployed in the Second Afghan War (1878-80), despite being rejected for the role of official photographer. He financed his trip by advance sales of his photographs

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