British Army 1870-1890: Zulu, Anglo-Afghan, Egypt and Sudan Wars

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3 September during the Second Anglo-Afghan War, the embassy of Sir Louis Cavagnari in Kabul was massacred by mutinous Afghan troops. Depicted below is a group of the Queen's Own Corps of Guides in Afghanistan, taken in 1880.
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Major Henry Savill Marsham pictured as a lieutenant with the 60th Kings Royal Rifle Corps. Marsham Served in Wolseley's Red River Expedition in 1870, the 2nd Anglo-Afghan War of 1878-80, and the Transvaal Rebellion of 1881-82 (aka, 1st Anglo-Boer War).
British officers and their Afghan guides pose for a photo during the Second Anglo-Afghan War in 1879.
Battle of Futtehabad
10th Royal Hussars. Raised in 1715, the "Shiny 10th" served in the Crimea, the Second Afghan War, the reconquest of the Sudan, and the Second Boer War. They famously imported the sport of Polo to England after serving in India.
Officers at Hythe 1870s, Incl Gonville Bromhead VC - Old Photo | eBay
Officers at Hythe 1870s, Incl Gonville Bromhead VC -
1st Battalion 24th Regiment of Foot Officers in Egypt Albumen photograph
1st Battalion - 24th Regiment of Foot Officers in Egypt - Albumen photograph
Acting Assistant Commissary James Langley Dalton VC. Credited by most historians with initiating the defence of the mission station at Rorke's Drift, Natal, January 22nd-23rd 1879, during the Anglo-Zulu War