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Or was the Second Anglo-Afghan War actually fought in the Pyrenees?

The 92nd Highlanders & 2nd Goorkhas storming Gaudi Mullah Sahabdad at Candahar, Richard Caton Woodville (1881)

The 92nd Highlanders & 2nd Goorkhas storming Gaudi Mullah Sahabdad at Candahar, Richard Caton Woodville (1881)

It confuses Antoni “Everything comes from the great book of Nature” Gaudí with whatever Gaudi means in Pushtu.

No, wait, isn’t that Montserrat in the background?!

(Pic: Wikimedia Commons. More nominally Muslim fortresses here.)

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Author The Singing Organ-GrinderPublished
Last updated 15/01/2010

This post pre-dates my organ-grinding days, and may be imported from elsewhere.Categories Empires, rulers and warfare, Les bourgeois, Liberals & locals

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