Sale's Brigade in Afghanistan: With an Account of the Seisure and Defence of Jellalabad |
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13th Light Infantry 35th Native Infantry Afghanistan Afghans Akbar Khan Alexander Burnes Ameers ammunition arms arrived artillery attack baggage Balla Hissar Bameean began Bengal body Bolan pass Bootkak British army camels camp Candahar Captain carried CHAP chief Colonel Dennie column command companies comrades corps Dost Mohammed enemy European Feringhees fire flank followers forage force Futteh Khan Futtehabad gallant garrison of Jellalabad Ghilzies Ghuznee ground Gundamuck guns halt hand head Heraut hills horse hundred Indus Khyber Kohistan Koord Cabul Mahmoud Meanwhile miles Monteith Moreover mountains night occasion occupied officers parties pass Peshawur piquets Pollock proceeded provinces Punjaub Quetta rear rear-guard regiments road rumours Sale's brigade sappers seemed Seikhs sent Shah Shujah Shah's shot Sir Henry Fane Sir John Keane Sir Robert Sale Sir Willoughby Cotton skirmishers soldiers soon Sukkur sustained tents thousand Tizeen took town tribes troops valley walls whole William Macnaghten Willoughby Cotton wounded
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Page 23 - Singh, had for their object, by opening the navigation of the Indus, to facilitate the extension of commerce, and to gain for the British nation in Central Asia that legitimate influence which an interchange of benefits would naturally produce.
Page 1 - Afghaunistan and Segistan, with part of Khorasan and of Makran ; Balk, with Tokarestaun and Kilan ; Kuttore, Caubul, Candahar, Sindy, and Cashmeer, together with a portion of Lahore and the greater part of Moultan. The whole population of the Kingdom cannot be under fourteen millions. This was the number fixed by one of the gentlemen of the mission, on a calculation of the extent and comparative population of the different provinces.
Page 71 - we see that you are notlike the infidel Hindoos that follow you ; you are men born and bred like ourselves, where the seasons vary, and in their changes give vigour both to body and mind. We wish that you had come among us as friends, and not as enemies, for you are fine fellows one by one, though as a body we hate you.
Page 137 - Under such circumstances, it is very little to be wondered at if men's blood curdled while they watched the advance of the solitary horseman ; and the voice of Dennie sounded like the response of an oracle when he exclaimed, ' Did I not say so 1 Here comes the messenger.
Page 69 - Dragoons, had the good fortune to win ; and so infectious became the habit that several of the native gentry entered their horses, with what success no record seems to have been preserved. The game of cricket was not, however, so congenial to the taste of the Afghans. Being great gamblers in their own way, they •looked on with astonishment at the bowling, batting, and fagging out of the English players ; but it does not appear that they were ever tempted to lay aside their flowing robes and huge...
Page 132 - ... And here let me not forget to record to the " honour of the illustrious garrison, that regularly as "the Lord's Day came round, brigade orders called "both officers and men together, that in his own " name and in the names of his comrades, one of "themselves might present to their Father which " is in heaven their common sacrifice of prayer and " praise. It was a righteous custom, and produced "upon all concerned the happiest effect. It sobered '' while it encouraged all, from the highest to...
Page 134 - Cabul had agreed not to commence its movement towards the provinces, till it should have been assured that General Sale and his people were beyond the frontier. " Everything," continued this remarkable despatch, " has been done in good faith. You will not be molested on your way ; and to the safe-conduct which Akbar Khan has given, I trust for the passage of the troops under my immediate orders through the passes.
Page 137 - Dennie," said one of those present, " sounded like the response of an oracle, when he exclaimed, ' Did I not say so ? Here comes the messenger.
Page v - Vol.17 or Part 34. Sale's Brigade in Affghanistan. WITH AN ACCOUNT OF THE SEIZURE AND DEFENCE OF JELLALABAD. BY REV. GR GLEIG. An accidental meeting with the 1 3th regiment at the sea-bathing quarter of Walmer during the autumn of last year, gave me an opportunity of hearing more of the particulars of the Jellalabad siege than had previously been communicated to me. The narrative was full of interest when detailed by actors in the scenes which they described ; and this it was which led to the determination...
Page 162 - British cavalry been such as could have been launched, without support, in pursuit, few would have escaped to tell of that day's overthrow. As it was, the fugitives being chased towards the river, rushed madly in, and perished, almost as many amid the deep water as by the bayonets and shot of the pursuers. ' Never was victory more complete. Camp, baggage, artillery, ammunition, standards, horses, arms of every kind, fell into the hands of the conquerors. The camp they committed to the flames ; of...