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After many years of civil war, Dost Mohammad Khan came to power and
ruled Afghanistan from 1826 to 1863. During the first Anglo-Afghan War,
Dost Mohammad Khan surrendered himself to the British, and was sent to India to live
as a hostage. After the Afghans, led by his son, Sardar Mohammad Akbar Khan, defeated
the British Army, Dost Mohammad Khan returned to Afghanistan and regained the throne.
He then consolidated his power; he captured Kandahar in 1855, and Herat in 1863.
A few days later after the capture of Herat, he died. He was born in 1793.
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