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13th Light Infantry 16th Lancers 4th Light Dragoons Affghan Chiefs Affghanistan Ameers amongst appeared army arrived attack bank battery bazaar Belochees belonging Bengal Bholun body Bombay Brigadier British Government Cabul camels Candahar Captain Outram carried Cavalry citadel command Commander-in-Chief comrades consisted day's march distance Dost Mahomed Khan Dost Mahommed effect enemy European Faquir feet fell fire foot fortress gate gateway ghans Ghiljie Ghuznee Governor-General ground guns hands havildar heights Herat hills Horse Artillery hundred Hyderabad immediately Indus interred Khelat Maharaja Majesty Majesty's 13th Major Daly matchlocks ment military morning mosque mountain mountain warfare native nearly o'clock observed occasion officers party passed prisoners Queen's Royals Quettah regiment rendered river route sabre scene Scinde Sehwan Sepoys serjeant Shah Soojah Shah's Sir Alexander Burnes Sir Henry Fane Sir John Keane soldier soon sort spot Sukkur surrounded Tattah tion took town trooper troops walls whilst wounded
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Page 234 - Macnaghten was accordingly deputed, in June last, to the court of his Highness, and the result of his mission has...
Page 232 - His attention was naturally drawn at this conjuncture to the position and claims of Shah Soojah-ool-Moolk, a monarch who, when in power, had cordially acceded to the measures of united resistance to external enmity, which were at that time judged necessary by the British Government, and who, on his empire being usurped by its present rulers, had found an honourable asylum in the British dominions.
Page 230 - The Governor-general deems it in this place necessary to revert to the siege of Herat, and the conduct of the Persian nation. The siege of that city has now been carried on by the Persian army for many months. The attack upon it was a most unjustifiable and cruel aggression, perpetrated and continued, notwithstanding the solemn and repeated remonstrances of the British Envoy at the Court of Persia, and after every just and becoming offer of accommodation had been made and rejected. The besieged have...
Page 235 - Moolk, whereby His Highness is guaranteed in his present possessions, and has bound himself to co-operate for the restoration of the Shah to the throne of his ancestors. The friends and enemies of any one of the contracting parties have been declared to be the friends and enemies of all.
Page 228 - After much time spent by Captain Burnes in fruitless negotiation at Cabul, it appeared that Dost Mahomed Khan, chiefly in consequence of his reliance upon Persian encouragement and assistance, persisted, as respected his misunderstanding with the Sikhs, in urging the most unreasonable pretensions...
Page 114 - The road to the gate was clear, the bridge over the ditch unbroken, there were good positions for the artillery within three hundred yards of the walls on both sides of the road, and we had information that the gateway was not built up, a reinforcement from Cabool being expected.
Page 114 - ... merely by mining or escalading. It therefore became requisite to examine closely the whole contour of the place, to discover if any other mode of attack could be adopted. The engineers, with an escort, went round the works, approaching as near as they could find cover ; the garrison were on the alert, and kept up a hot and well-directed fire upon the officers, whenever they were obliged to show themselves.
Page 231 - Excellency has been compelled, by the refusal of his just demands, and by a systematic course of disrespect adopted towards him by the Persian government, to quit the court of the Shah, and to make a public declaration of the cessation of all intercourse between the two governments. The necessity under which Great Britain is placed, of regarding the present advance of the Persian arms into Afghanistan as an act of hostility towards herself, has also been officially communicated to the Shah, under...
Page 123 - Thomson, however, adhered to the latter, and we were afterwards convinced it was the most judicious plan ; for although the fire of the artillery was necessarily more general than it would have been in daylight, still it was so well directed as to take up a good deal of the attention of the besieged and draw upon their batteries a portion of the fire which in daylight would have been thrown upon the explosion party and assaulting columns.
Page 236 - The GovernorGeneral confidently hopes that the Shah will be speedily replaced on his throne by his own subjects and adherents ; and when once he shall be secured in power, and the independence and integrity of Affghanistan established, the British army will be withdrawn.