Photograph of the meeting of Emir Mohammad Yaqub Khan (1849-1923) and Sir Pierre Louis Napoleon Cavagnari (1841-79) before the Treaty of Gandamak. Sir Cavagnari, the British representative, and another uniformed officer are mounted on horses in a lane in the foreground, their backs to the camera. The Emir and followers are mounted facing them. On the hillside to the right there is large group of mounted British soldiers. Mountains extend into the distance behind them. The Treaty of Gandamak ended the first phase of the Second Anglo-Afghan War (1878-80). Afghanistan conceded territory to British control and Sir Cavagnari became the British representative in Kabul. He was killed by Afghan forces a few months later and fighting resumed. This photograph was taken by John Burke, who travelled with the Peshawar Valley Field Force during the war.