The Afghan Wars 1839-42 and 1878-80Forbes, Archibald
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The Afghan Wars 1839-42 and 1878-80
Forbes, Archibald
Afghan Wars
BEACONSFIELD, Lord, 'scientific frontier'.
BEHMAROO RIDGE; village of.
BELLEW, Captain, at the storming of the Rikabashee fort.
BELOOCH PROVINCES, the.
BENI BADAM, Baker treacherously attacked at.
BENI HISSAR.
BENTINCK, Lord William; his opinion of the first Afghan expedition.
BERLIN, Treaty of.
BHAWULPORE.
BHURTPORE.
BIDDULPH, General, in command of the Quetta force.
BIRD, Lieutenant, at the storming of the Rikabashee fort.
BOKHARA.
BOLAN PASS, the.
BOOTKHAK.
BOYD, Mrs, in the retreat.
BROADFOOT, Captain George, his sappers; in the Gundamuk council of war;
garrison engineer at Jellalabad; urges Sale to hold the place; his
account of the council of war.
BROADFOOT, with Fraser's Bengal Cavalry, killed at Purwan Durrah.
BROADFOOT, William, Secretary to Sir A. Burnes, murdered with him.
BROOKE, Brigadier-General, killed in attack on Deh Khoja.
BROWNE, Sir Sam, in command of the Khyber column; attack on the Ali
Musjid; reports the death of Shere Ali; receives Yakoub Khan; commands
in 'the Death March'.
BROWNLOW, Colonel, of the 72d Highlanders, in the attack on the
cantonments; killed in the battle of Candahar.
BROUGHTON, Lord. _See_ SIR JOHN CAM HOBHOUSE.
BRYDON, Dr, sole survivor of the Khyber disaster.
BURNES, Sir Alexander, sent by Lord Auckland to Cabul; favourable to
Dost Mahomed, reprimanded by his superiors, leaves Cabul; re-enters with
Shah Soojah; his opinion of Shah Soojah's ministers; advice to
Macnaghten; his character; murdered; revenged.
BURROWS, Brigadier-General, in the Maiwand disaster; in the battle of
Candahar.
BUTLER'S, Lady, picture.
BUTSON, Captain, killed at Sherpur.
C.
CABUL, PASS OF KHOORD; description of, slaughter in; Pollock's army
marches up.
CABUL, Shah Soojah ousted from the throne of; Shah Soojah re-enters;
British troops in; Dost Mahomed surrenders at; murder of Burnes at; Shah
Soojah murdered at; Nott arrives at; punished; Cavagnari at; the Sherpur
cantonments, north of; Roberts near; Mahomed Jan plans to take;
hostility of villages round; Mushk-i-Alum governor of; re-occupied by
Roberts; fortifications and communications improved; Sir Lepel Griffin
arrives at; holds a durbar at.
CAMPBELL, sent by Shah Soojah to assist Burnes, fails.
CANDAHAR, siege of, by Shah Soojah, relieved by Dost Mahomed; entered by
Shah Soojah and Keane; occupied by British troops; independent province
of; Timour, Shah Soojah's viceroy at; British troops to leave; Nott in;
Afghans beaten off; General Stuart's march on; evacuated; to be
separated from Cabul; Shere Ali Khan governor of; Burrow's army
withdrawn into; Sir F. Roberts marches on; arrives at; battle of;
question of retention of; battle between Abdurrahman and Ayoub Khan at.
CAVAGNARI, Sir Louis; ineffectual attempt to enter Cabul; correspondence
with Yakoub Khan; at Cabul, his character; the massacre.
CHAMBERLAIN, Sir Neville, abortive attempt to enter Afghanistan as
Envoy.
CHAMBERS, Colonel, defeats the Ghilzais.
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