The annihilation left Britain and India in shock and the Governor General, Lord Auckland, suffered an apparent stroke[25] upon hearing the news. In the Autumn of 1842 an "Army of Retribution" led by Sir George Pollock, with William Nott and Robert Sale commanding divisions, leveled the great bazaar and all the larger buildings of Kabul.[26] Sale personally rescued his wife Lady Sale and some other hostages from the hands of Wazir Akbar Khan.