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Treaty of Gandamak
The
Treaty of Gandamak
officially ended the first phase of the
Second Anglo-Afghan War
.
Afghanistan
ceded various frontier areas to
Britain
to prevent invasion of further areas of the country. It was signed on 26May 1879 by
King
Mohammad Yaqub Khan
of Afghanistan and Sir
Pierre Louis Napoleon Cavagnari
of British's
Government of India
at a British army camp near the village of
Gandamak
, about east of Kabul. The treaty was ratified by
Lord Edward Robert Bulwer Lytton
,
Viceroy of India
, on 30 May 1879.
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