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
CHAPMAN, Colonel (now Major-General) E. F., chief of the staff; in the
Great March; reconnaissance before the battle of Candahar.
CHARASIAH, battle of.
CHARDEH VALLEY, the.
CHARIKAR, capital of the Kohistan, troops quartered in; disaster of;
punishment of; Abdurrahman arrives at.
CHISHOLM, Captain, wounded at the Seah Sung ridge.
CLARK, Lieutenant-Colonel.
CLELAND, gallant conduct of.
CLERK, Mr, demands right of way through the Punjaub.
CLIBBORN, Colonel, defeated by Beloochees.
COBBE, leads the attack of the Peiwar Kotul.
CODRINGTON, commandant of Charikar; killed; revenged.
COMMISSARIAT FORT, the.
CONOLLY, Lieutenant John; a hostage.
COOK, Major, V.C., of the Goorkha regiment, killed at the Takht-i-Shah.
COTTON, Sir Willoughby, commands first infantry division; on the march
to Cabul; in chief command in Afghanistan; a respectable nonentity.'.
CRAIGIE, defence of Khelat-i-Ghilzai.
CRISPIN, with Eraser's Bengal Cavalry, killed at Purwan Durrah.
CRUICKSHANK, Captain, killed at the attack on Deh Khoja.
CUNYNGHAM, Lieutenant Dick, V.C., gallant conduct at the Takht-i-Shah.
CUTCH.
D.
DADUR, in.
DAKKA.
DAOUD SHAH, Yakoub Khan's general; accompanies the Ameer to Roberts'
camp.
DEH-I-AFGHAN, a suburb of Cabul.
DEH KHATI.
DEH KHOJA.
DEH MAZUNG.
DEHRAWAT.
DEIG.
DENNIE, Colonel, of the 13th, at the taking of Ghuznee; in command at
Bamian; replaces Sale in command; heads a sortie from Jellalabad; in the
council of war; commands the centre at the great sortie and is killed.
DENNIS, Colonel.
DODGIN, Captain, valour in the retreat.
DOORANEES, the.
DOST MAHOMED, origin; early career; asks for terms; forsaken by his
troops; a fugitive; in Bokhara and Khooloom; at Bamian and Kohistan;
surrenders to Macnaghten; sent into British India; to be allowed to
return to Afghanistan; his return to his sovereignty; dies.
DREW, Colonel, enters the Peiwar Kotul.
DUNCAN, General.
DUNDAS, Captain, killed at Sherpur.
DUNHAM-MASSY, Brigadier-General.
DURAND, on the siege of Herat; on Lord Auckland's manifesto; on
Macnaghten's appointment; at siege of Ghuznee; on the restoration of
Shah Soojah; on Dost Mahomed's surrender; on the retreat on Jellalabad;
on Macnaghten's ill-faith.
E.
EDWARDES, Sir Henry, on Lord Auckland's manifesto.
ELLENBOROUGH, Lord, on Sale's brigade; first manifesto; vacillations;
orders the removal of the gates of Somnath from Sultan Mahmoud's tomb;
reception of the returning armies.
ELLIS, Mr, British Envoy to Persia.
ELPHINSTONE, General; succeeds Cotton in chief command; his character
and infirmities; orders Sale to return to Cabul; about to leave India;
orders the abandonment of the Commissariat fort; the Duke of
Wellington's verdict on his position; hopeless; 'scents treachery';
calls upon Pottinger to open negotiations; in the retreat; consents to
hand over the ladies; and their husbands; refuses Akbar's proposal that
the Europeans should lay down their arms; conference; made a hostage; at
Jugdulluk; death.
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