CASUALTY RECORD // July 23, 1839
Battle of Ghazni
Estimated casualties — killed, wounded, captured, and missing — by side, with confidence labels per surviving record.
Casualties by side
1 sides catalogued · combined 1,600 estimated
Barakzais
1,600
Medium-confidence figure
Battle context
The Battle of Ghazni was fought at the city of Ghazni in central Afghanistan on 23 July 1839, during the First Anglo-Afghan War. The engagement pitted a Durrani force of over 20,000 under Shuja Shah Durrani and John Keane against a Barakzai garrison of 3,500 commanded by Ghulam Haidar Khan. Barakzai casualties reached 1,600. Ghazni was a strategically positioned city in central Afghanistan, and its fall was a significant step in the British-backed effort to restore Shuja Shah Durrani to power against the Barakzai rulers.
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