Afghanistan - Pt 4

When you're wounded and left on Afghanistan's plains, And the women come out to cut up what remains, Jest roll to your rifle and blow out your brains, An' go to your Gawd like a soldier. —Rudyard Kipling, “The Young British Soldier”

This episode, the fourth and final installment of Gordon’s Afghanistan series, originally aired in August of 2016. Links to Part 1, Part 2, and Part 3 here.

“Maiwand: Saving the Guns”, Royal Horse Artillery fleeing from Afghan attack at the Battle of Maiwand, by Richard Catton Woodville

From the original show notes: In part four of our series on Afghanistan we endure the horrors of Maiwand and make it all the way through the Third Anglo-Afghan War (1919) to reach a lull in the endless skirmishing, invasion, and revenge ops.

Links:

• BRASS - Season 1 trailer (soundcloud.com)

• BRASS by John Longenbaugh on iTunes

• Lives of a Bengal Lancer - trailer - Gary Cooper

• The Lives of a Bengal Lancer (film) (1935)

• Rudyard Kipling: The Young British Soldier (poetryloverspage.com)

• Second Anglo-Afghan War

• Gen. George Burrows (Indian Army officer) - eBooks (gutenberg.org)

• Battle of Maiwand (July, 1880)

• Third Anglo-Afghan War (1919)

• This week's special music: "Pareshe Jal" (The Flight of the Lark)

• Bad Cat Shop at Zazzle