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HISTORY OF THE WAR IN AFGHANISTAN.

by

JOHN WILLIAM KAYE, F.R.S.

Third Edition.

In Three Volumes.

VOL. II.







London:
Wm. H. Allen & Co., 13, Waterloo Place,
Publishers to the India Office.
1874.

London.
Printed By W. Clowes And Sons, Stamford Street
And Charing Cross.




CONTENTS.


                               BOOK IV.


                              CHAPTER I.

                       [August-December, 1839.]
                                                                    PAGE

  Dawn of the Restoration—Difficulties of our Position—Proposed
  Withdrawal of the Army—Arrival of Colonel Wade—His
  Operations—Lord on the Hindoo-Koosh—Evils of our
  Policy—Defective Agency—Moollah Shikore—Our Political
  Agents—Operations in the Khybur Pass—The Fall of Khelat            1


                              CHAPTER II.

                      [January-September, 1840.]

  The Great Game in Central Asia—The Russian Expedition to
  Khiva—Apprehensions of Burnes—Colonel Stoddart—Affairs on the
  Hindoo-Koosh—Failure of the Russian Expedition—Conduct of the
  Sikhs—Herat and Yar Mahomed—Mission of Abbott and
  Shakespear—Disturbances in the Ghilzye Country—Fall of
  Khelat—Arthur Conolly                                              32


                             CHAPTER III.

                        [June-November, 1840.]

  The last Struggles of Dost Mahomed—The British in the
  Hindoo-Koosh—The Ameer’s Family—Occupation of Bajgah—Disaster
  of Kamurd—Escape of Dost Mahomed—Feverish State of
  Caubul—Dennie’s Brigade—Defeat of the Ameer—Sale in the
  Kohistan—The Battle of Purwandurrah—Surrender of Dost
  Mahomed                                                             73


                              CHAPTER IV.

                   [November, 1840-September, 1841.]

  Yar Mahomed and the Douranees—Season of Peace—Position of the
  Douranees—The Zemindawer Outbreak—Conduct of Yar
  Mahomed—Departure of Major Todd—Risings of the Douranees and
  Ghilzyes—Engagements with Aktur Khan and the Gooroo—Dispersion
  of the Insurgents                                                   99


                              CHAPTER V.

                      [September-October, 1841.]

  Aspect of Affairs at Caubul—The King—The Envoy—Burnes
 —Elphinstone—The English at Caubul—Expenses of the
  War—Retrenchment of the Subsidies—Risings of the
  Ghilzyes—Sale’s Brigade—Gatherings in the Kohistan—Sale’s
  Arrival at Gundamuck—The 1st of November                          135


                                BOOK V.

                             [1841-1842.]


                              CHAPTER I.

                           [November, 1841.]

  The Outbreak at Caubul—Approaching Departure of the
  Envoy—Immediate Causes of the Rebellion—Death of Sir Alexander
  Burnes—His Character—Spread of the Insurrection—Indecision
  of the British Authorities                                         163


                             