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9781108044578

Journal of the Disasters in Affghanistan, 1841 - 2

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    9781108044578

  • ISBN10:

    1108044573

  • Edition: 1st
  • Format: Paperback
  • Copyright: 2012-02-16
  • Publisher: Cambridge Univ Pr

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Summary

Lady Sale (née Florentia Wynch, 1790-1853) became an instant heroine when her journal of the disastrous events in Afghanistan in 1841-2 was published in 1843. The wife of Sir Robert Sale, second-in-command of the British forces, she was taken hostage, along with her daughter and baby grand-daughter, after the massacre of over 4,500 British troops at Kabul, while her husband commanded a besieged garrison at Jalalabad. The small group of hostages was moved from place to place, with only the clothes they stood up in, to evade attempts at rescue over a period of nine months. Eventually, they were able to bribe a tribal leader to release them, and they met up with a British rescue party just before Afghani pursuers overtook them. Lady Sale's diary, carried in a cloth bag at her waist, was published almost unedited, and is an extraordinary account of her ordeal.

Table of Contents

Vocabulary
Introduction
Cabul
The Zoormut expedition
Revolt of Tézeen and Bhoodkhak
Departure of Gen. Sale's brigade from Cabul
Losses at the Khood Cabul pass
Terms made with the chiefs
Outbreak in Cabul
Captain Johnson's treasury plundered
Supineness of the British chiefs
Capt. Campbell's regiment repulsed
State of the cantonments
Return of the 37th N.I.
Attack on the Commissariat fort
Loss of Mackenzie's fort
Outbreak in the Kohistan
Want of provisions
Loss of the Commissariat fort
Disastrous attempts to recapture the small fort
Shah Zeman declared King
Recall of Gen. Sale
Position of the cantonments
Arrival of Brig. Shelton in cantonments
Losses at the Rikabashees' fort
Death of Col. Mackrel
Losses at Kandahar
Action on the Western Heights
Affairs in the Kohistan
Accounts from Jellalabad
Dissensions in the British council
Action on the hills above Behmaru
Terms proposed by the enemy
Reply of the Envoy
Difficulty of obtaining supplies
Attack on the captured fort
Disgraceful loss of the fort
The General urges the necessity of negotiating
Terms made with the enemy
Hostages demanded by them
The forts given up to them
The seizure of the Envoy by Mahommed Akbar Khan
News received of the Envoy's death
Negotiations resumed
Preparations for evacuating cantonments
Departure postponed
Retreat from Cabul
Cantonments evacuated
Difficulties encountered by the rear guard
Loss of the guns and ammunition
Terms made with Mahommed Akbar
Losses in the Khoord Cabul pass
Akbar demands possessions of the ladies and children
Destruction of the rear column
Attempt of the remnant of the army to reach Jugdaluk
Gen. Elphinstone and Brig. Shekton go to Mahommed Akbar
Deliberations of the chiefs
Attack at Judgaluk
The final struggle at Gundamuk
The Captivity
March of the prisoners towards the Lughman valley
Accommodation at Buddeabad
Accounts from Jellalabad
Severe earthquake
Adventures of Capt. Bygrave
Accounts from the garrison at Ghuznee
Ferocity and cruelty of Mahommed Akbar
Change of jailors
Offers for ransoming the prisoners
Report of the murder of Shah Shoojah
March for Tézeen
Major Pottinger expostulates with the Sirdar
Death of Gen. Elphinstone
Insults offered to his corpse on its way to Jellalabad
Akbar acknowledges that he slew the Envoy
Treachery of Shumshudeen at Ghuznee
Visit to the ladies of Mahommed Shah's family
Account from Jellalalbad
Proceedings at Cabul
March to Khoord Cabul
Offers for exchange of prisoners
Reports from Cabul
The Bala Hissar is surrendered to Akbar
Sufferings of Col. Stoddart and Capt. A. Conolly in Bokhara
Friendly conduct of the Nawaub, Zeman, Shah Khan
Gen. Pollock offers to treat with the Sirdar
Gloomy prospects
Policy of Mahommed Akbar
Death of Capt. John Conolly
Accounts of the Kandahar force
Newspaper controversy
Review of Akbar's conduct
His treatment of the prisoners
Futteh Jung challenges Akbar to battle
Removal of the prisoners to the Loghur country
Proposed plan for their release
March to Bamean
Terms made by the prisoners with their jailor
He hoists the flag of defiance on the fort
The prisoners are joined by several native chiefs
They commence their march
Arrival of Sir Richard Shakespear
Rescue by Gen. Sale
Addenda
Appendix
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