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  1. Three wars waged between Britain and
  2. Afghanistan to counter the threat to British
  3. India from expanding Russian influence in
  4. Afghanistan. First Afghan War 1838-42, when
  5. the British garrison at Kabul was wiped out.
  6. Second Afghan War 1878-80, when Gen Roberts
  7. captured Kabul and relieved Kandahar. Third
  8. Afghan War 1919, when peace followed the
  9. dispatch by the UK of the first airplane ever
  10. seen in Kabul.
  11.