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Gandamak
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Gandamak is a village of Afghanistan located between Kabul and Jalalabad, from Jalalabad on the old road to Kabul.

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Locality
Gandamak
Region
ننگرهار ولايت
Country
افغانستان
Population
0

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Instance of
human settlement
Located in
Jalalabad
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Gandamak is a village of Afghanistan located between Kabul and Jalalabad, from Jalalabad on the old road to Kabul.

==History== thumb|right|The Last Stand of the 44th Regiment at Gundamuck, by [[William Barnes Wollen (1898)]] During the retreat from Kabul of General Elphinstone's army in 1842, a hill near Gandamak was the scene of the Battle of Gandamak, during which the last survivors of the force—twenty officers and forty-five British soldiers of the 44th East Essex Regiment—were killed, leaving only one survivor, an assistant surgeon named William Brydon.

Excerpted from Wikipedia’s “Gandamak” article, available under the CC BY-SA 4.0 licence.

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