CASUALTIES ON 14TH DECEMBER. ─────────────────────────┬──────┬──────┬──────┬──────┬───────┬──────┬────── │ K.│ W.│ K.│ W.│ K.│ W.│ No. 2 Mountain Battery │ —│ —│ —│ —│ 1│ 6│ 7 5th Punjab Cavalry │ —│ —│ —│ —│ —│ 8│ 8 14th Bengal Lancers │ —│ —│ —│ —│ —│ 5│ 5 67th Foot │ —│ —│ —│ 5│ —│ —│ 5 72nd Highlanders │ 2│ 1│15[34]│ 16│ —│ —│ 34 92nd Highlanders │ —│ 1│ —│ 3│ —│ —│ 4 3rd Sikhs │ —│ —│ —│ —│ —│ 5│ 5 Guides’ Infantry │ —│ 1│ —│ —│ 13│ 27│ 41 5th Punjab Infantry │ —│ —│ —│ —│ 1│ 13│ 14 5th Ghoorkas │ —│ —│ —│ —│ 3│ 2│ 5 ─────────────────────────┼──────┼──────┼──────┼──────┼───────┼──────┼────── Total │ 2│ 3│ 15│ 24│ 18│ 66│ 128 ─────────────────────────┴──────┴──────┴──────┴──────┴───────┴──────┴────── ----- Footnote 33: Missing. Footnote 34: One missing. ----- The total loss in the five days’ fighting is, therefore, eight British officers killed and 12 wounded; 38 British soldiers killed and 69 wounded; 37 Native soldiers killed and 111 wounded; or a total of 275 casualties, viz., 83 killed and 192 wounded. The officers killed on the 14th were Captain Spens and Lieutenant Gaisford, 72nd Highlanders: those wounded were Captain Gordon, 92nd Highlanders; Lieutenant Egerton, 72nd; and Lieutenant Frederick Battye, Guides’ Infantry. ---------------------------- CHAPTER XVII. The Defences of Sherpur Strengthened—Continued Inactivity of the Enemy—State of the Walls and Trenches—Mounting of Captured Guns—The Reserve—The State of Cabul—Attacks upon the Hindu and Kizilbash Quarters—Threat to assemble 100,000 Afghans—Reflections upon Past Events—Neglect of Military Precautions—Non-destruction of Forts and Villages—Review of the Fighting—City Rumours—Musa Jan proclaimed Amir—Seizure of Treasure by Mahomed Jan—Demonstration by the Enemy on December 17th—The Distribution of Commands in Sherpur—Immunity from Night Attacks—Steadiness of the Troops—The Attack of December 18th—Heliograms exchanged with Luttabund—The First Fall of Snow at Cabul. SHERPUR, _15th December, night_.