In his task of reform Campbell received every encouragement. Although Dost Mahommed himself made no alteration in the Kabul district, he watched with interest the work of reorganisation. Unfortunately, Campbell died before any great progress could be made, his demise being followed within a short space by that of Dost Mahommed in 1863 and Mahommed Afzul Khan in 1867. Nevertheless his influence was abiding, since the spectacle presented by the Balkh forces prompted Shir Ali to adopt an Anglo-Indian model as the working basis for his reorganisation of the Kabul army. In the sixteen years of his reign, between 1863-1879, he continued to introduce improvements founded upon Anglo-Indian drill-books, which he had had translated into Persian and Pushtu. Batteries of field and mountain artillery, and regiments of horse and foot were raised; territorial divisions were formed upon paper and field columns, whose brigade and regimental units corresponded with the Anglo-Indian system, were created. In actual practice these troops were never brigaded together, and officers and men alike were ignorant of parade and musketry exercises. Nevertheless, if their notions of drill were vague, their spirits and their carriage were not unmartial. In detail, and under a general distribution of the regular forces, troops were located-- At Kabul, two regiments of infantry, eighteen field-pieces, two heavy guns and one mortar. At Balkh, three regiments of infantry, two regiments of cavalry and sixteen field guns. At Bamian, one regiment of infantry with two mountain guns. In the Kohistan, one regiment of infantry, two field and two mountain guns. At Farah, one regiment of infantry and four field guns. At Girishk, one regiment of infantry and four field guns. At Ghazni, one regiment of infantry and four field guns. At Akcha, one regiment of infantry and two field guns. At Kelat-i-Ghilzai, one regiment of infantry, three mountain and one field gun. At Kandahar, three regiments of infantry, one of cavalry, two heavy guns, two mountain guns and twelve field guns. In the Zamindawar, one regiment of infantry and four field guns. The nominal strength of each infantry regiment was 800 men, although daily parade seldom mustered more than 600 men. The state of the cavalry regiments was 300 men, the complete return of the regular forces of Afghanistan at this epoch being: _Numbers._ _Average._ _Total._ _Artillery._