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Battle for Kushka

When
30 March 1885
Where
Panjdeh oasis, near Kushka
Part of
Battle for Kushka triggers the Panjdeh Incident

Russian forces attacked Afghan positions at Panjdeh, overwhelming the defenders and capturing artillery and convoys.

On 30 (18) March 1885, Russian troops attacked the Afghans, defeating them and putting them to flight. The Russians captured all artillery and the convoy, occupying Panjdeh. Approximately 600 Afghan soldiers were overwhelmed by over 2,500 Russian troops in this engagement, which is also known as the Battle of Kushka. The engagement occurred in the Panjdeh oasis area; the Murghab River is known from the region but the supplied passages tie it to a later 1886 boundary line rather than the battle site itself.

Sources

  1. Panjdeh incident Wikipedia, revision of 2026-08-31
  2. Serhetabat Wikipedia, revision of 2026-09-26

Machine-drafted from the cited Wikipedia passages and checked by a reviewing model, not by a human editor. Every passage cites the revision it was written from; dates and places follow those passages.