History of the War in Afghanistan, Volume 2This historic book may have numerous typos and missing text. Purchasers can usually download a free scanned copy of the original book (without typos) from the publisher. Not indexed. Not illustrated. 1851 edition. Excerpt: ... chapter ii. November, 1841--April, 1842. Affairs at Candahar--Evil Tidings froin Caubul--Maclaren's Brigade--Spread of the Insurrection--Arrival of Atta Mahined--Flight of Sufdur Jung--Attack on the Douranee Camp--Continued Hostilities--Attack upon the City--Action in the Valley of the Urghundab--Fall of Ghuznee--Defence of Khelat-i-Ghilzye--Movements of England's Brigade. The attention of the reader ought now no longer to be withheld from that part of the country where General Nott and Major Rawlinson were gallantly and successfully holding out against the insurgent Douranees, and maintaining the character of the British nation before the tribes of Western Afghanistan. At the beginning of November, wrote Rawlinson, in a summary of events, drawn up with such masterly distinctness and comprehensiveness, that the historian has little to do, in this place, but to submit himself to its guidance, "affairs wore a more tranquil and promising appearance in the Candahar province than I had ever witnessed since my assumption of the charge of the agency. Akram Khan, the leader of the Derawat rebellion, captured by Lieu Major Rawlinson to Government: ter, written by Major Rawlinson to March 6, 1842. This important de-Mr. Colvin, on the 13th of December, spatch was published by Lord Ellen-I am indebted for the information borough in the Government Gazette, contained in the earlier portion of and subsequently appeared in the this chapter. Blue Book. To an unpublished let massacre of woodburn's detachment. 391 tenant Conolly, had been executed at this place by his Majesty's orders. Eight of the most influential of his colleagues had been sent by me, according to the orders of the Envoy, under the charge of Lieutenant Crawford, to Caubul; that officer... |
Other editions - View all
Common terms and phrases
advance Afghan Afghanistan Alexander Burnes Ameen-oollah Khan Ameer army arrival artillery attack Balla Hissar Barukzyes brigade Brigadier Shelton British army British Government British troops camp Candahar cantonments Caubul cavalry chiefs Colonel command Conolly despatched Dost Mahomed Dost Mahomed Khan Douranee Elphinstone enemy English Envoy fire force Futteh Jung garrison gates ghans Ghazees Ghilzyes Ghuznee Governor-General Gundamuck guns hands honour hope horse India Jellalabad jezails John Conolly Journal Khybur King Kuzzilbashes lakhs of rupees letter Lieutenant Lord Auckland Lord Ellenborough Mackeson Mahomed Akbar Khan Mahomed Khan Major Pottinger Major Rawlinson Major-General Meerza Ahmed ment military Mohun Lal morning move movement Native Infantry negotiations Newab Nott officers orders party pass Peshawur plunder Pollock position Prince prisoners Quettah received regiments retreat rupees Sale's says seemed sent Sepoys Shah Soojah Shah's Sikh Singh Sirdar soldiers soon supplies tion whilst William Macnaghten wounded wrote
Popular passages
Page 631 - To force a Sovereign upon a reluctant people, would be as inconsistent with the policy as it is with the principles of the British Government...
Page 634 - ... 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. To you, princes and chiefs of Sirhind, of Rajwara, of Malwa, and of Guzerat, I shall commit this glorious trophy of successful war.
Page 634 - Our victorious army bears the gates of the temple of Somnauth in triumph from Afghanistan, and the despoiled tomb of Sultan Mahomed looks upon the ruins of Ghuznee. The insult of eight hundred years is at last avenged.
Page 196 - 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 336 - The field of battle was strewed with the bodies of men and horses, and the richness of the trappings of some of the latter seemed to attest that persons of distinction had been among the casualties.
Page 203 - ... 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, walls, mosques, tombs, and gardens, from which a fire could be opened upon the defenders, at twenty or thirty yards.
Page 217 - Few doubted that he was the bearer of intelligence that would fill their souls with horror and dismay. Their worst forebodings seemed confirmed. There was the one man who was to tell the story of the massacre of a great army.* A party of cavalry were sent out to succour him. They brought him in wounded, exhausted, halfdead. The messenger was Dr. Brydon, and he now reported his belief that he was the sole survivor of an army of some sixteen thousand men.
Page 631 - 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 446 - ... by the infliction of some signal and decisive blow upon the 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...
Page 454 - ... our character as a powerful nation would be entirely lost in this part of the world. It is true that the garrison of Jellalabad has been saved, which it would not have been, had a force not been sent to its relief. But the relief of that garrison is only one object; there still reVOL. II. 2 H main others which we cannot disregard — I allude to the release of the prisoners.