When the Affghan horsemen, who had assembled in the neighbourhood, learnt the fate of the fortress, they abandoned their camp equipage and baggage, and fled towards Cabool, the capital of eastern Affghanistan, in the direction of which city the British forces immediately advanced. Dost Mahomed Khan, the ruler of the country, assembled a formidable host in position near Ughundee; but ascertaining that his soldiers had resolved to abandon him, he fled with a body of select cavalry, leaving his artillery in position; and the British army, advancing by triumphant marches to the capital, replaced Shah Shoojah-ool-Moolk in the possession of the palace of his forefathers, from which he had been an exile many years. The conquest of a kingdom was thus achieved, by British skill and enterprise, with trifling loss, and the army pitched its tents in a rich valley near the capital. The services of the THIRTEENTH Light Infantry were afterwards rewarded with the royal authority to bear on their regimental colour the words “AFFGHANISTAN” and “GHUZNEE.” A medal was given by the restored monarch to the officers and soldiers present at the storming of Ghuznee, which Her Majesty QUEEN VICTORIA authorized them to receive and wear. An order of merit was also instituted by the Shah, called the ORDER of the “DOORANÉE EMPIRE,” the decorations of which were conferred on’ the general and field officers; and Her Majesty was graciously pleased to grant permission to Sir Robert Sale, of the THIRTEENTH, to accept and wear the insignia of the first class, and Brevet Major James Kershaw and Captain Hamlet Wade the insignia of the third class of the order. Colonel Robert Henry Sale, was promoted to the rank of Major-General in Affghanistan, and was appointed by Her Majesty to be a Knight Commander of the Most Honorable Military Order of the Bath; Major Edward T. Tronson was promoted to the rank of lieut.-colonel in the army, and Captain James Kershaw to that of major, for their services in this campaign; the promotions taking place from the 23rd July, 1839, the date of the capture of Ghuznee. NAMES of the officers of the THIRTEENTH who received the Ghuznee Medal:-- Brigadier Robert Henry Sale. ---- William Dennie. Major Edward Tronson. ---- Tristram Squire. _Captains._ George Fothergill. William Sutherland. James Kershaw. Robert Pattisson. John Taylor. Horatio Vigors. Henry Havelock. _Lieutenants._ Arthur Wilkinson. James Fenwick. John Foulston. Peter Jennings. Philip Von Streng. Alexander Holcombe. George King. Rollo Burslem. John Wood. Frederick Holder. William Sinclair. Hon. Emilius Forester. Thomas Oxley. David Rattray. _Ensigns._ Edward King. George Mein. Richard Frere. George Wade. _Paymaster_ Harry Carew.--_Adjutant_ Hamlet Wade. _Assistant Surgeons_ J. Robertson, M.D. and G. Barnes, M.D.