General McCaskill, in command of the first division, had under him the 31st (East Surrey), the 33rd and 60th Regiments of Bengal Infantry, and the Sikh army. In the month of August the army continued its advance on Kabul. Some opposition was experienced in forcing the passes in which our troops in the preceding winter had met their doom, but by the end of September retribution had been exacted; the captives, amongst whom were Sir Robert Sale's wife and daughter, had been released; the Bala Hissar, or citadel, in Kabul had been destroyed, and Nott's army had joined hands with the Commander-in-Chief. The retirement to Peshawur was effected with comparatively little loss, and in the beginning of November the army was once more on the left bank of the Sutlej, in British territory. Pollock's force met with opposition in the Khyber, both in going up to relieve the garrison of Jelalabad as well as in the return march from Kabul to Peshawur, the casualties of his and Nott's force being-- +-------------------+-----------+-----------+ | |_Officers._| _Men._ | | _Regiments._ +-----+-----+-----+-----+ | | K. | W. | K. | W. | +-------------------+-----+-----+-----+-----+ |3rd Hussars | - | - | - | 8 | |9th Norfolk | 1 | 5 | 26 | 90 | |13th Somerset L.I. | - | 1 | 2 | 19 | |31st E. Surrey | 1 | 2 | 5 | 40 | |40th South Lancs | 1 | 4 | 15 | 33 | |41st Welsh | 2 | 3 | 11 | 48 | |5th Light Inf. | - | 2 | 8 | 17 | |6th Light Inf. | - | 3 | 12 | 76 | +-------------------+-----+-----+-----+-----+ CUTCHEE, 1839-1842.[22] This distinction, which is borne on the appointments of the 35th Scinde Horse and the 36th Jacob's Horse, was awarded to those regiments for their services in the province of Cutchee during the operations in Afghanistan in 1839-1842. Cutchee is a province of Southern Baluchistan, and the inhabitants had been enriching themselves at the cost of the East India Company by a very comprehensive system of attacks on our convoys. No general action was fought, and the actual losses incurred by the two regiments were trifling; but the work was none the less arduous for the absence of fighting, and Sir Charles Napier felt it would be an encouragement to the two newly-raised regiments if they received some outward token that the Sirkar appreciated their good and gallant conduct. On several occasions the regiments had shown considerable dash, and had never hesitated to follow their British officers against any number of Baluchis. CHAPTER XVII BATTLE HONOURS FOR SERVICES IN INDIA, 1843 Scinde--Meeanee--Hyderabad--Maharajpore--Punniar. SCINDE, 1843.