History of the War in Afghanistan, Volume 2R. Bentley, 1857 - Afghan Wars |
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abandoned affairs Afghan Afghanistan Akbar Khan Aktur Khan Alexander Burnes Ameer Arthur Conolly Artillery attack Balla Hissar Bameean Barukzye believed Bokhara Brigadier Shelton British troops Burnes Candahar cantonments Captain Johnson Caubul cavalry Charekur chiefs Colonel command commissariat Conolly Correspondence danger declared defence despatched detachment Dost Mahomed Dost Mahomed Khan Douranees Elphinstone enemy English Envoy expedition favour Feringhees fire force garrison Ghilzyes Goorkha Government guns Herat Hindoo-Koosh honour hope horse India insurgents insurrection Jellalabad jezails John Conolly Khelat Khiva King Kohistan letter Lieutenant Lord Auckland Macgregor Mahomed Akbar Mahomed Khan Majesty ment military Mission Mohun Lal morning movement Native Infantry negotiations November officers Oosbeg opinion party Peshawur political position Pottinger Rawlinson rebels received regiment retreat Russian Sale's brigade says sent Sepoys Shah Soojah Shah's Sikh Sir W. H. Macnaghten Sirdar soldiers soon supplies tion treaty tribes whilst wounded wrote Wuzeer Yar Mahomed
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Page 330 - Its tracing was vicious in the extreme; it had no parapet excepting for a few hundred yards, which there was not more than two feet high. Earth and rubbish had accumulated to such an extent about the ramparts, that there were roads in various directions across and over them into the country. There was a space of 400 yards together, on which none of the garrison could show themselves, excepting at one spot ; the population, within was disaffected, and the whole enceinte was surrounded by ruined forts,...
Page 20 - Asia the lawful influence to which Russia has a right, and which alone can insure the maintenance of peace. This is the purpose of the present JUSTICE OF THE RUSSIAN EXPEDITION. 499 expedition; and as soon as it shall be attained, and an order of things conformable to the interests of Russia and the neighbouring Asiatic states shall be established on a permanent footing, the body...
Page 130 - The scandal was open, undisguised, notorious. Redress was not to be obtained. The evil was not in course of suppression. It went on till it became intolerable ; and the injured then began to see that the only remedy was in their own hands.
Page 323 - ... have seized Jellalabad, and reduced it to ashes, or, holding it, have left me no alternative but a disastrous retreat towards Peshawur. I therefore came to the resolution of anticipating any movement of this kind, and, by possessing myself of this city, establishing a point on which the force at Cabul might retire, if hardly pressed, and restoring a link in the chain of communication with our provinces.
Page 112 - Now upon what do you found your assertion that there is a national feeling against us, such as that against the French in Algiers or the Russians in Circassia? Solely, so far as I know, because the turbulent Douranees have risen in rebellion. From Mookoor to the Khybur Pass all is content and tranquillity, and wherever we Europeans go we are received with respect, and attention, and welcome.
Page 156 - ... the mob. Beside him were his brother and his friend. The crowd before his house increased in number and in fury. Some were thirsting for blood ; others were greedy only for plunder. He might as well have addressed himself to a herd of savage beasts. Angry voices were lifted up in reply, clamouring for the lives of the English officers. And too surely did they gain the object of their desires. Broadfoot, who sold his life dearly, was the first to fall. A ball struck him on the chest ; and the...
Page 398 - We must see what the morning brings, and then think what can be done'. Hereafter hardly one act of the British fell below an almost incredible level of imbecility. No disgrace, no humiliation, was wanting. Elphinstone and his troops looked on while the Afghans stormed the fort where the commissariat was stored. The rank and file and junior 1 Up the Country, 389.
Page 393 - Ghilzyc or insurgent should be able to run up and down hills, but not a cat or a goat, except under the fire of those occupying the hills. This is the mode of carrying on the war, and not by hiring Afghans with long matchlocks to protect and defend the communications of the British army.
Page 427 - ... had once been a British force. The march was resumed ; new horrors set in ; new heaps of corpses stained the snow ; and then Akbar Khan presented himself with a fresh proposition. In the treaty made at Cabul between the English authorities and the Afghan chiefs there was an article which stipulated that " the English force at Jellalabad shall march for Peshawur before the Cabul army arrives, and shall not delay on the road.
Page 345 - ... with straining eyes tracing the road. Slowly and painfully, as though horse and rider both were in an extremity of mortal weakness, the solitary mounted man came reeling, tottering on. They saw that he was an Englishman. On a wretched, weary pony, clinging, as one sick or wounded, to its neck, he...