A Journal of the Disasters in Afghanistan: A Firsthand Account by One of the Few Survivors

by Sale, Florentia Wynch, Lady

• ISBN13: 9780972042826
• ISBN10: 0972042822
• Format: Paperback
• Copyright: 2002-11-01
• Publisher: Waterlow Co

Table of Contents

List of Illustrations	ix
Maps of Afghanistan circa 1838	x
Publisher's Preface	xiii
Glossary	xv
Introduction to the First Edition	xxiii
Editor's Introduction	xxvii
Cabul
The Zoormut expedition	1	(1)
Revolt of Tezeen and Bhoodkhak	2	(2)
Departure of General Sale's brigade from Cabul	4	(1)
Losses at the Khoord Cabul pass	5	(7)
Terms made with the chiefs	12	(7)
Outbreak in Cabul	19	(3)
Captain Johnson's treasury plundered	22	(2)
Supineness of the British chiefs	24	(2)
Captain Campbell's regiment repulsed	26	(1)
State of the cantonments	27	(2)
Return of the 37th Native Infantry	29	(4)
Attack on the Commissariat fort	33	(3)
Loss of Mackenzie's fort	36	(1)
Outbreak in the Kohistan	37	(2)
Want of provisions	39	(1)
Loss of the Commissariat fort	40	(2)
Disastrous attempt to recapture the small fort	42	(3)
Shah Zeman declared king	45	(2)
Recall of General Sale	47	(1)
Position of the cantonments	48	(9)
Arrival of Brigadier Shelton in cantonments	57	(3)
Losses at the Rikabashees' fort	60	(1)
Death of Colonel Mackrell	61	(5)
Losses at Kandahar	66	(1)
Action on the western heights	67	(5)
Affairs in the Kohistan	72	(3)
Accounts from Jellalabad	75	(8)
Dissensions in the British councils	83	(2)
Action on the hills above Behmaru	85	(9)
Terms proposed by the enemy	94	(3)
Negotiations with the enemy broken off	97	(2)
Reply of the Envoy	99	(6)
Difficulty of obtaining supplies	105	(2)
Attack on the captured fort	107	(4)
Disgraceful loss of the fort	111	(7)
The General urges the necessity of negotiating	118	(4)
Terms made with the enemy	122	(2)
Hostages demanded by them	124	(3)
The forts given up to them	127	(10)
Seizure of the Envoy by Mahommed Akbar Khan	137	(3)
News received of the Envoy's death	140	(2)
Negotiations resumed	142	(6)
Preparations for evacuating cantonments	148	(5)
Departure postponed	153	(4)
The Retreat from Cabul
Cantonments evacuated	157	(5)
Difficulties encountered by the rear-guard	162	(2)
Loss of the guns and ammunition	164	(4)
Terms made with Mahommed Akbar	168	(1)
Losses in the Khoord Cabul Pass	168	(6)
Akbar demands possession of the ladies and children	174	(7)
Destruction of the rear column	181	(4)
Attempt of the remnant of the army to reach Jugdaluk	185	(4)
General Elphinstone and Brigadier Shelton go to Mahommed Akbar	189	(1)
Deliberations of the chiefs	190	(5)
Attack on Jugdaluk	195	(4)
The final struggle at Gundamuk	199	(1)
The Captivity
March of the prisoners towards the Lughman valley	200	(4)
Accommodation at Buddeabad	204	(3)
Accounts from Jellalabad	207	(6)
Severe earthquake	213	(3)
Adventures of Captain Bygrave	216	(3)
Accounts from the garrison at Ghuznee	219	(2)
Ferocity and cruelty of Mahommed Akbar	221	(1)
Change of jailers	222	(2)
Offers for ransoming the prisoners	224	(5)
Report of the murder of Shah Shuja	229	(2)
March for Tezeen	231	(6)
Major Pottinger expostulates with the Sirdar	237	(3)
Death of General Elphinstone	240	(2)
Insults offered to his corpse on the way to Jellalabad	242	(1)
Akbar acknowledges that he slew the Envoy	243	(3)
Treachery of Shumshudeen at Ghuznee	246	(4)
Visit to the ladies of Mahommed Shah's family	250	(4)
Accounts from Jellalabad	254	(1)
Proceedings at Cabul	254	(1)
March to Khoord Cabul	255	(4)
Offers for exchange of prisoners	259	(5)
Reports from Cabul	264	(2)
The Bala Hissar is surrendered to Akbar	266	(7)
Sufferings of Colonel Stoddart and Captain Conolly in Bokhara	273	(3)
Friendly conduct of the Nawaub, Zeman Shah Khan	276	(3)
General Pollock offers to treat with the Sirdar	279	(2)
Gloomy prospects---policy of Mahommed Akbar Khan	281	(4)
Death of John Conolly	285	(4)
Accounts of Kandahar force	289	(2)
Newspaper controversy	291	(1)
Review of Akbar's conduct	291	(2)
His treatment of the prisoners	293	(4)
Futteh Jung challenges Akbar to battle	297	(1)
Removal of the prisoners to the Loghur country	298	(4)
Proposed plan for their release	302	(5)
March to Bameean	307	(2)
Terms made by the prisoners with their jailer	309	(1)
He hoists the flag of defiance on the fort	310	(1)
The prisoners are joined by several native chiefs	311	(2)
They commence their march	313	(1)
Arrival of Sir Richmond Shakespear	314	(3)
Rescue by General Sale	317	(3)
Addenda	320	(8)
Appendix	328	(2)
Epilogue	330	(2)
About the Author	332