History of the War in Afghanistan, Volume 3Wm. H. Allen, 1858 - Afghan Wars |
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advance Afghan Afghanistan Akbar Khan Ali-Musjid Ameen-oollah Khan Ameer army arrival Arthur Conolly Atta attack Balla Hissar Barukzyes believed Bokhara brigade British Government British troops Broadfoot camp Candahar Caubul cavalry chiefs Colonel command Commander-in-Chief Conolly Correspondence declared defences despatch detachment Dost Mahomed Khan doubt Douranee enemy English Ferozepore force forward frontier Futteh Jung garrison gate Ghazees Ghilzye Gholab Singh Ghuznee Governor-General guns hands Herat honour Horse Artillery hostages Hykulzye India Janbaz Jellalabad jezails John Conolly Khiva Khybur Pass King Kojuck Kuzzilbash lakhs letter Lord Auckland Lord Ellenborough Macgregor Macnaghten Mahomed Akbar Major Rawlinson Major-General Meerza Ahmed ment military month move movement Native Infantry Newab Nott Nott's officers orders party Peshawur political Pollock position Pottinger Prince prisoners Quettah received regiments reinforcements rupees Sale Sale's seemed sent Sepoys Shah Soojah Shah's Shumshoodeen Sikh Sir Jasper Nicolls Sirdar Stoddart Suddozye Sutlej whilst withdrawal wrote
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Page 192 - Afghans, which may make it appear to them, to our own subjects, and to our allies, that we have the power of inflicting punishment upon those who commit atrocities and violate their faith, and that we withdraw ultimately from Afghanistan, not from any deficiency of means to maintain our position, but because we are satisfied that the king we have set up has not, as we were erroneously led to imagine, the support of the nation over which he has been placed.
Page 192 - Candahar ; to the security of our troops now in the field from all unnecessary risk ; and, finally, to the re-establishment of our military reputation by the infliction of some signal and decisive blow upon the Afghans...
Page 199 - With regard to our withdrawal at the present moment, I fear that it would have the very worst effect ; it would be construed into a defeat, and our character as a powerful nation would be entirely lost in this part of the world.
Page 407 - A faithless enemy, stained by the foul crime of assassination, has, through a failure of supplies, followed by consummate treachery, been able to overcome a body of British troops, in a country removed, by distance and difficulties of season, from the possibility of succour. But the GovernorGeneral in Council, while he most deeply laments the loss of the brave officers and men, regards this partial reverse only as a new occasion for displaying the stability and vigour of the British power, and the...
Page 67 - February, to remove in an instant this ground of confidence. A tremendous earthquake shook down all our parapets built up with so much labour, injured several of our bastions, cast to the ground all our guard-houses, demolished a third of the town, made a considerable breach in the rampart of a curtain in the Peshawur face, and reduced the Cabool gate to a shapeless mass of ruins.
Page 377 - Content with the limits nature appears to have assigned to its empire, the Government of India will devote all its efforts to the establishment and maintenance of general peace...
Page 380 - India," —"Our victorious army bears the gates of the temple of Somnauth in triumph from Afghanistan, and the despoiled tomb of Sultan Mahmoud looks upon the ruins of Ghuznee. The insult of eight hundred years is at last avenged. The gates of the temple of Somnauth, so long the memorial of your humiliation, are become the proudest record of your national glory; the proof of your superiority in arms over the nations beyond the Indus.
Page 468 - If you should be enabled by a coup-de-main to get possession of Ghuznee and Cabul, you will act as you see fit, and leave decisive proofs of the power of the British army, without impeaching its humanity. You will bring away from the tomb of Mahmood of...
Page 195 - The severe check experienced by Brigadier England's small corps on the 28th ultimo, — an event disastrous as it was unexpected, — and of .which we have not yet information to enable us to calculate all the results, — has a tendency so to cripple the before limited means of movement and of action which were possessed by...
Page 409 - Pass; the Sikh troops spreading alarm, and in all ways encouraging and screening their desertion, which was considerable. It was well that a cautious, cool officer of the Company's army should have to deal with them in such a temper, 363 miles from our frontier. General Pollock managed them exceedingly well, but he did not venture to enter the pass till April (two months and a half after Brigadier Wild's failure), when reinforced by the 3rd Dragoons, a regiment of cavalry, a troop of horse artillery,...