What was famous about William Brydon, an assistant surgeon in the British East Indian Army in the 1840s?
Answer: He was purportedly the only British survivor from an army of 4,500 men who had been forced to retreat from Kabul in 1842, during the First Anglo-Afghan War (1839-1842). The retreat, known also as the massacre of Elphinstone’s Army, was the worst disaster in British military history until the Fall of Singapore in 1942.
Source: Retreat from Kabul by Patrick Macrory
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