The army of the Indus assembled at Ferozepore, and a meeting took place between the Governor-General and Runjeet Sing. The news of the Persians breaking up from before Heerat determined Government on sending only one division of the army, accompanied by the troops which were being raised for Shah Soojah, under British officers, into Affghanistan. The artillery for the Shah’s service consisted originally of two troops of horse artillery, to which were afterwards added a mountain train and some body-guard guns. Captain W. Anderson was intrusted with the formation of the horse artillery, and though but little time was allowed him, and many difficulties arose from the demand for men and horses for the other branches, his exertions succeeded in overcoming them, and he marched in good time from Dehli, with his two troops fully equipped, but, of course, untrained. His endeavours were well seconded by his two subalterns, Lieutenants Cooper and Turner. The Shah’s guns were in Lieutenant Warburton’s charge, and the mountain train was organized by Captain Backhouse, but not until 1840. The regular artillery, with this division from Bengal, consisted of Major Pew, commanding; Captain Day, commissary of ordnance; Lieutenant Backhouse, M.B. ────────┬────────┬──────────┬─────────┬──────────────────────────────── Company.│Brigade.│Battalion.│Captains.│ Lieutenants. ────────┼────────┼──────────┼─────────┼──────────────────────────────── 2 │ 2 │ │Grant │Duncan, J. Anderson. 4 │ 3 │ │Timmings │Mackenzie, Hawkins, E. Kaye. 2 │ │ 6[87] │A. Abbott│Dawes, R. Shakespear, Warburton. 4 │ │ 2 │Garbett │J. Abbott, Walker, Green. ────────┴────────┴──────────┴─────────┴──────────────────────────────── Captain Todd, of the artillery, who had been employed in Persia, was attached to the political department. The army commenced its march on the 10th December, and met with no difficulties until the 16th March, 1839, when they entered the Bolan pass, a pass as terrible to the Indian, as that of Avernus to the classical, imagination. Here the toils of the campaign began, and, as usual in such cases, a double share fell to the artillery. The horses, overweighted and ill-fed, with difficulty dragged the carriages through its stony lengths; the camels and bullocks, over-driven to keep pace with the column, and escape the new danger arising from the matchlocks of the Murrees and Brahoos perched on the rocks, stumbled and fell, many never to rise again: store-carts and baggage were lost by these accidents.