Attock Fort in 1860s

Photograph of a battery in the fort, with a military camp in the distance, at Attock , in the Punjab, Pakistan, taken by Baker and Burke in the 1860s.

Attock, on the eastern bank of the Indus, is of key importance as it is here that the Indus is crossed by the military and trade route down through the Khyber Pass.
The fort was built by the Mughal Emperor Akbar in 1581 to support his own wars in Afghanistan. It was held by the Sikhs in the 19th century, they had taken it from the Afghans in 1813.
The Sikhs yielded it to the British in 1849. The fort is poised over the Indus just south of the point where the Kabul river enters it.

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اٹک قلعہ سے اٹھارہ سو ساٹھ 1860 کی دہائی میں لی گئی تصویر

 

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