The Battle of Maiwand (Dari: نبرد میوند, Pashto: د ميوند جگړه) was fought on 27 July 1880 during the Second Anglo-Afghan War. Fought near the village of Maiwand in Kandahar Province, the battle resulted in an Afghan army of 25,000 regulars and irregulars under Mohammad Ayub Khan defeating a force of 2,476 British and Indian troops under Brigadier-general George Burrows. The Afghans suffered between 2,500 and 3,000 men killed and wounded while Burrows' force suffered possibly as high as 1,200 killed. Though the battle proved to be a major setback for the British, they would go on to decisively defeat Ayub Khan at the Battle of Kandahar on 1 September.
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