Note: Images of the original pages are available through Internet Archive. See https://archive.org/details/historyofwarinaf02kayeuoft Project Gutenberg has the other two volumes of this work. Volume I: see http://www.gutenberg.org/ebooks/48083 Volume III: see http://www.gutenberg.org/ebooks/50342 Transcriber’s note: A carat character is used to denote superscription. Multiple superscripted characters are enclosed by square brackets (example: ^[me]). HISTORY OF THE WAR IN AFGHANISTAN. by JOHN WILLIAM KAYE, F.R.S. Third Edition. In Three Volumes. VOL. II. London: Wm. H. Allen & Co., 13, Waterloo Place, Publishers to the India Office. 1874. London. Printed By W. Clowes And Sons, Stamford Street And Charing Cross. CONTENTS. BOOK IV. CHAPTER I. [August-December, 1839.] PAGE Dawn of the Restoration—Difficulties of our Position—Proposed Withdrawal of the Army—Arrival of Colonel Wade—His Operations—Lord on the Hindoo-Koosh—Evils of our Policy—Defective Agency—Moollah Shikore—Our Political Agents—Operations in the Khybur Pass—The Fall of Khelat 1 CHAPTER II. [January-September, 1840.] The Great Game in Central Asia—The Russian Expedition to Khiva—Apprehensions of Burnes—Colonel Stoddart—Affairs on the Hindoo-Koosh—Failure of the Russian Expedition—Conduct of the Sikhs—Herat and Yar Mahomed—Mission of Abbott and Shakespear—Disturbances in the Ghilzye Country—Fall of Khelat—Arthur Conolly 32 CHAPTER III. [June-November, 1840.] The last Struggles of Dost Mahomed—The British in the Hindoo-Koosh—The Ameer’s Family—Occupation of Bajgah—Disaster of Kamurd—Escape of Dost Mahomed—Feverish State of Caubul—Dennie’s Brigade—Defeat of the Ameer—Sale in the Kohistan—The Battle of Purwandurrah—Surrender of Dost Mahomed 73 CHAPTER IV. [November, 1840-September, 1841.] Yar Mahomed and the Douranees—Season of Peace—Position of the Douranees—The Zemindawer Outbreak—Conduct of Yar Mahomed—Departure of Major Todd—Risings of the Douranees and Ghilzyes—Engagements with Aktur Khan and the Gooroo—Dispersion of the Insurgents 99 CHAPTER V. [September-October, 1841.]