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
KUSHI; General Roberts meets Yakoub Khan at.
KUTTI SUNG.
L.
LAHORE, Mr Clerk at.
LAKE.
LANCERS, the 9th.
LANCERS, Bengal, the.
LAWRENCE, Captain, warns Macnaghten; made prisoner; sends messages from
the chiefs to Elphinstone; description of the retreat; made hostage; in
captivity.
LAWRENCE, Lord, his 'masterly inactivity;' against keeping Candahar.
LEACH, Major.
LOCKHART.
LOGUR VALLEY, the; plain; river.
LOODIANAH, Shah Soojah's refuge in.
LORD, Dr, political officer in the Bamian district; killed at Purwan
Durrah.
LOVEDAY, Lieutenant, political officer at Khelat, barbarously murdered.
LUGHMAN VALLEY, the.
LUGHMANEE, Pottinger besieged in.
LUNDI KOTUL.
LUTTABUND.
LYTTON, Lord, Viceroy, 1876; his instructions; ratifies the treaty of
Gunda-Gundamuk; prepares to revenge Cavagnari; decides that Yakoub Khan
does not return to Afghanistan; recommends Abdurrahman.
M.
MACGREGOR, Brigadier-General Charles, C. B., chief of Sir F. Roberts'
staff; recovers the guns at Baghwana; in the Great March; in the battle
of Candahar.
MACGREGOR, Major, deceived by the Ghilzai chief of Tezeen; Sale's
adviser.
MACKENZIE, Captain Colin, at the defeat of Dost Mahomed near Bamian;
gallant conduct of; with Macnaghten; a hostage; story of the Retreat.
MACKENZIE, Captain Stuart, gallant conduct of.
MACKESON, political officer at Peshawur.
MACKRELL, Colonel, killed at the storming of the Rikabashee fort.
MACLAINE, Lieutenant, of the Horse Artillery, in the Maiwand disaster;
taken prisoner; murdered.
MACLAREN.
MACNAGHTEN, Lady; in the Retreat.
MACNAGHTEN, Sir William Hay, envoy to Shah Soojah, influence with Lord
Auckland; his use of bribery; on the reception of the Shah at Candahar;
enters Cabul with Shah Soojah; convinced of the Shah's popularity; real
sovereign of Afghanistan; his mistakes; relations with the Ghilzais;
consents to the abandonment of the Balla Hissar; relations with Herat;
nervous about the communication; relation with Dost Mahomed; proposes to
put a price on his head; receives his surrender; his peculiar
temperament; his finance; discovers the unpopularity of the Shah; his
conduct to the 'Gooroo' and Ghilzais; appointed Governor of Bombay;
called upon to retrench; his conduct to Elphinstone; despatches Sale;
his quarters at Cabul; demands the reduction of the Rikabashee fort;
depression; negotiation about the Retreat; murdered.
MACPHERSON, Brigadier-General; in the December operations round Cabul;
in the Great March; in the battle of Candahar.
MAHMOOD KHAN, fort of.
MAHMOUD SHAH, brother of Shah Soojah.
MAHOMED HASSAN KHAN, Abdurrahman's governor of Candahar, defeated by
Ayoub.
MAHOMED JAN, a Warduk general, defends the Asmai heights; attacked by
Massy and Macpherson; attack on the Sherpur cantonments.
MAHOMED MEERZA, Shah of Persia, his ambition, designs on Herat.
MAHOMED SHAH KHAN, Akbar's lieutenant.
MAHOMED SHEREEF, fort of.
MAHOMED SURWAR, agent of Sir Lepel Griffin.
MAHOMED ZEMAUN KHAN.
MAIDAN PLAIN, the.
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