Dictionary of Battles / From the Earliest Date to the Present Time

by Thomas Benfield Harbottle

Khojah Pass (First Afghan War).

Fought March 28, 1842, when General England, in an endeavour to relieve General Nott in Kandahar, marched into the pass with 500 men only, without waiting for the rest of his brigade, and was defeated by the Afghans with a loss of 100 killed and wounded, and compelled to retire to Quetta[Quetta].