• The area was a British military camp or cantonment and the site of the 1879 Siege of the Sherpur Cantonment in the Second Anglo-Afghan War.
  • Major-General Sir Frederick Roberts' Kabul Field Force spent the winter of 1879-1880 besieged at Sherpur cantonment by vastly superior numbers of Afghans.
  • The Sherpur Cantonment, seen from Asmai Hills was situated a mile north of the city of Kabul, Afghanistan; it was planned by the Amir of Afghanistan...
  • The Sherepur or Sherpur cantonment in Kabul, Afghanistan, circa 1879-80. (Photo by Hulton Archive/Getty Images).
  • The British and Indian troops took over the Sherpur military cantonment north of Kabul, built by their predecessors in 1839 during the occupation of the city in the...
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  • Photograph taken by John Burke in 1879, showing the Maidan or open space at the cantonment at Sherpur, situated a mile north of the city of Kabul...
  • The Siege of the Sherpur Cantonment was a battle fought in December 1879, during the Second Anglo-Afghan War.
  • On 15 December, the Afghan army began to besiege the British forces entrenched in the Sherpur Cantonment. ... View inside the Sherpur Cantonment today.