Man.... you have an interesting perspective on history...it is not quite as you describe though.
Alexander the Great did conquer Afghanistan...but then HE conquered everyone.
He died four years later.
Four years later, Alexander died. Then his cavalry commander, Seleucus, seized control of the eastern part of his empire. Greek rulers would maintain control over most of Afghanistan until 150 BC, when Parthian nomads arrived.
The Persians tore them a new ass..
nope... defeated...couldn't hold it.
The Afghans then defeated twice a large Persian army that was dispatched from Isfahan (capital of the Persian Safavid Empire).
Several half-hearted attempts to subdue the rebellious city having failed, the Persian Government despatched Khusraw Khn, nephew of the late Gurgn Khn, with an army of 30,000 men to effect its subjugation, but in spite of an initial success, which led the Afghns to offer to surrender on terms, his uncompromising attitude impelled them to make a fresh desperate effort, resulting in the complete defeat of the Persian army (of whom only some 700 escaped) and the death of their general. Two years later, in A.D. 1713, another Persian army commanded by Rustam Khn was also defeated by the rebels, who thus secured possession of the whole province of Qandahr.[17]
The Persian armies were defeated and the area of Kandahar was made into an independent local kingdom.
The English tore them a new ass though they did lose 4000 men in the first campaign with only one british survivor..
But the English were back for a second time but having achieved all their other objectives, the British withdrew.
Then the English kicked their asses again in 1919...
In 1878, the British invaded again, beginning the Second Anglo-Afghan War.
nope defeated...couldn't hold it...paid a tremendous price too in blood and treasure. Went back in August 1842 and after inflicting reprisals and securing the release of prisoners taken during the retreat from Kabul hey withdrew from Afghanistan through the Khyber Pass. Dost Muhammad was released, reestablished his authority in Kabul, and died on June 9, 1863.
btw the english lost 16,000 men (3,600 were soldiers) in the Destruction of Elphinstone's army.
Lady Butler's famous painting of Dr. William Brydon, initially thought to be the sole survivor, gasping his way to the British outpost in Jalalabad, helped make Afghanistan's reputation as a graveyard for foreign armies and became one of the great epics of Empire.
after that they fought each other until the Russians attacked in 1979 and were tied up in a police action for ten years.
hmmm Soviets tried to occupy Afghanistan but went home with their tails between their legs. Thought we all knew the Soviets were bogged down for years helping to bleed their empire of blood and treasure and helping cause the collapse of the Soviet Union.
maybe YOU should take history class again. You missed something.
I stand by my statement... Afghanistan is known as the graveyard of Empires for a reason.
