This distinction was granted to all the regiments which participated in the operations in Afghanistan, having for their object the release of the captives in the hands of Akbar Khan, or of the relief of the garrisons at Jelalabad and Khelat-i-Ghilzai. The command of the army operating from Peshawur was entrusted to General George Pollock, of the Bengal Artillery, whilst the Southern army, which advanced from Kandahar, was, as we have seen, commanded by General Nott, a distinguished officer of the Indian army. The regiments authorized to bear this distinction are the 3rd Hussars. Norfolk. Somerset Light Infantry. East Surrey. South Lancashire. Welsh. 33rd Q.O. Light Cavalry. 4th Rajputs. 5th Light Infantry. 6th Light Infantry. 12th Khelat-i-Ghilzai. Pollock's army was mobilized at Peshawur, in virtue of an arrangement with Runjeet Singh, the Sovereign of the Punjab, who had consented to send an army to act in conjunction with our own. It was not until the commencement of April that General Pollock had collected sufficient carriage for his advance. We were now under no delusions as to the feeling of the people of Afghanistan, and we also knew that the tribes in the Khyber Pass would oppose every step of our way. Sir Robert Sale had relieved himself before General Pollock started, and it was intended that his troops should join in the advance, and take their share in carrying out the punishment to be inflicted on the city of Kabul. Sale's brigade was numbered the First of Pollock's army, which was thus constituted: Commanding the Forces: General George Pollock. Second in Command: Major-General John McCaskill. First Brigade--Major-General Sir Robert Sale: 13th (Somerset Light Infantry), 35th Light Infantry, and tribal levies. Second Brigade--Brigadier-General Tulloch: 9th (Norfolk Regiment), 26th and 60th Regiments of Bengal Infantry. Third Brigade--Brigadier-General Wilde: 30th, 53rd, and 64th Regiments of Bengal Infantry. Fourth Brigade--Brigadier-General Monteath: 31st (East Surrey), 6th and 33rd Regiments of Bengal Infantry. The cavalry brigade was under Brigadier-General White, and consisted of the 3rd Hussars, the 1st and 10th Regiments of Bengal Light Cavalry, and two corps of Irregular Horse. The artillery comprised two batteries of horse artillery, three of field, and one mountain battery, under Brigadier-General H. Delafosse. Pollock determined to advance before the arrival of his Third Brigade, leaving that to join him at Jelalabad. He left Peshawur on April 5, and, after one or two sharp skirmishes, arrived at Jelalabad on the 16th of the same month. Here the army was reorganized, Sir Robert Sale being made a Divisional General, and placed in command of the second division, which was to consist of the 9th (Norfolks), the 13th (Somerset Light Infantry), the 16th and 26th Regiments of Bengal Infantry.