Girishk

Girishk

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GIRISHK, a village and fort of Afghanistan. It stands on the right bank of the Helmund 78 miles west of Kandahar on the road to Herat; 3641 ft. above the sea. Girishk was occupied by the British during the First Afghan War; and a small garrison of sepoys under a native officer, successfully withstood a siege of nine months by an overwhelming Afghan force. The Dasht-i-Bakwa stretches beyond Girishk towards Farah, a level plain of considerable width, which tradition assigns as the field of the fine contest for supremacy between Russia and England.


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