Narrative of the War in Affghanistan in 1838-39 (Volume 2) Henry Havelock, Captain
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University of Nebraska Omaha DigitalCommons@UNO Books in English Digitized Books 1-1-1840 Narrative of the war in Affghanistan in 1838-39 (Volume 2) Henry Havelock, Captain Follow this and additional works at: http://digitalcommons.unomaha.edu/afghanuno Part of the History Commons, and the International and Area Studies Commons Recommended Citation Havelock, Henry Narrative of the war in Affghanistan in 1838-39. London: Henry Colburn, 1840. volume 2 This Monograph is brought to you for free and open access by the Digitized Books at DigitalCommons@UNO. It has been accepted for inclusion in Books in English by an authorized administrator of DigitalCommons@UNO. For more information, please contact [email protected]. OF THE WAR IN AFFGHANISTAN. IN 1838-39. BY CAPTAIN HENRY I-IAVELOCIC. 13~~REGIMENT (LIGUT INPANTBY), AIDE-DE-CAMP TO MAJOR-GENEILAL 8In tVILLOUGlIDY COTTON, G.C.D. AND. x.c.H., ' COIIIMANDING THE DCNGAL FORCES IN APFGHANISTAN. IN TWO VOLUMES. LONDON: HENRY COLBURN, PUBLISHEIE, 13, GREAT MARLDOROUGII STREET. 1840. CONTENTS. CHAPTER I. Ueac~.iption of Cnnd~har-Its defences, streets, bnz~ars, buildings, costumes, and commodities-Flight and pros. pects of its late rulers-Title bestowed on Hnjee I<han ICakur-Bombay tro~psreach Cnndaliar-Recognition of Shah Shooja-He receives the officers of the British army in grand durbar-Murder of Lieutennot Inverarity -Preparations for on advance on Cabool-Shnb Shooju encamps without the walls of Cnndahar-Observations. i CHAPTER 11. The army breaks up from Candubru.-Its health and means of subsistenoe-Head-quarters fixed at Gbojun Symptoms of affection for Sbnh Shooja-l)efcction of the nephew of Dost Mabomet ICbnn-Reconnaissance of Ghuznee-Storm andcopture of Ghuznee-Moohj~n~- mud Hyder Khan made prisoner-R.Iagnanin~ity of the Shah-Booty and Ins8 on botb sides-Flight of Dost Moohumnrud Khan-Capture of his artillery-Shah Sllooja enters Cnbool-Observationa * . 39 vi CONTENTS. CHAPTER 111. C~hool-Its fruit-bazaars and ahops-Monument of Sooltan Bnber-Abundance in the Britieh camps-Pursuit and escnne of tho Ex-Ameer-Murder of Lieutennut-colonel Herring-Opening of the Icyber Pass-Affair of ICooloo- joo - Armngements for the military occupation of A5ghanistsn-Head-quarters of the army of the Indus moved from Cnbool towards tbu Iudus-Insurrection of I the Ichyberees-Sanguinary defent of the Nujecbs- Peshawur-SLirmiahes with the Ichyberees-Observn- tians * APPENDI~NO. I. I Declnrntion on the pnrt of the Right Hon. the Governor- general of India f NO. 11. General Orders by hin Exaellency the Commnnder-in- chief . 248 NO. 111. Genernl Orders by his Excelleuoy the Commnnder.in- chief . 258 NO. IV. Orders by his Excellency the Commander-in-ohiof to the Army of the Indus , . 261 NO. V. Orders by the Right Honourable the Governor-general of India , . 262 NO. VI. General Orders by his Excellency the Commander-in- chief to the ~rm~*oftbe Indus . 265 CONTENTS. vii NO. VII. Order8 by the Rigllt IIonournble the Governor-general of trnent of S00lt~n India 267 ,B-Pursuit and . eutennnt - c010n@l NO. 1'111. Affair of 1<00loo- Orders by his Excellency the Commander-in-cbief to the occupation of Army of tbe Indus . 869 , my of the Indus NO. IX. -Insurrection of Camp Sultlrur, 1Stl1 February, 1839 . 272 ' the Nujeebs- ~erees-0 bservn- NO. X. 181 Extract from General Orders by llis Excellency Lieu- tenant-general Sir Jollll Icefine, 1c.k.~.and G.C.H., Commnnder in-chief of the Army of the Indus . 273 I.the Governor- . 237 NO. XI. Larkhnna, 10th March, 1839 . 278 WO. XIT. Genernl Orderrt by the Commander-ip-chief , , 276 NO, XIIT. Extract OC Orrlers by Major-geuernl Sir Willongltby 9 commander-in- Cotton, commanding t11o Urn gal oolumn of the Army of . 258 the Indus . 279 NO. XIV. Extract from General Orders, dated Iieatl-quarters, camp Ghusnee, 22ud July, 1839 . 280 NO. XIr. Genernl Order hy H. E. Lieutennnt-General SI~John Kenne, Commander-in-'chief of the army of the Indus . 203 General Order by his Excellency tl~eComn~andcr-in-chief 291 NO. XVI. List of Icilled, Wounded, nnd Misslng, in the Army under the comnlnnd of Lieutenant-genernl ~?rJohn l<eane before Glluznee, on ll~eBlstJuly, 1839 . 291 viii CONTENTS. NO. XVII. Roll of General and Stnff Officers of Her Mnjesty's Service attached to the Bengal column of tlie Army of the Indus 294 NO. XVIII. Roll of Staff Oficers of the Honourable Company's Service attached to the Bengal column of the Army of the Indus 295 NO. XIX. Disposition Return of ll~eArmy of the Indue . 297 NO. XX. Copy of a Report from Major Maclaren, cornmandiug the 16th Regiment Nntive Infantry . 298 NO, XXI. List of Members of the several classes of the Order of the Dooranee Empiro, instituted by Sllab Sooja-001-Moolk, at Cabul, 17th of September, 1839 . 802 d NO. XXII. Copy of a Letter from Major Maclaren, commanding the 16th Regiment Native Infanby . 307' NO. XXIII. Uivibion Orders by Major-general Sir Willoughby Cotton, 1C.C.B. and 1LC.H. 311 NO. XKIV. Inscription on tho Pediment of the Marble Mosque near tbe Tomb of Sooltan Babur . 314 NO. XXV. General Orders by the Right EIonourable tlie Governor- general of India . 817 NO. XXVI. Timour, in his Institutes, spealts of ono of liis own lines of operation against Dellli . 323 opany'e Serviae my of the Indus 295 NARRATIVE WAR IN AFFGHANISTAN. the Order of the Sooja-001-Moolk, CHAPTER 1. so2 Description of Cnlidnhar-Its dcfunces, streets, bazars, build- commanding the ings, costumes, nnd coinmoditie~-Flight and prospects of 307 its late rulers-Title Irt.:,to~vedoil I-Injee Khnu ICnkur- . Bombay troops reacli Caildnliar-Recognilion of Shnh Shooja-He reocivcs thc officers of the British army in grand dntbor-Mul.dcr of Lieutenant Invernrity-Prepn. illougbby Cotton, rations for nn advsnco on Cabool-Shnh Sliooja eiicnrnps 311 . without the walls of Cnndahar-Observntioi~s. ~rbleMosque near THOUGHwe had yet found no enemy capable . 314 of opposing our progress, it was not without some feeling of exultation that we moved across ,le tile Governor- the plains towards the walls of Candahar. The . Sly length of the route since we had left our own provinces, the noble river, and lofty mountain r.anges which we had crossed, the desert tracts VOL. II. IJ and arid plains which we had traversed, the pri- vations which our troops had endured, and thc llarassing and vexatious, though paltry attaclcs to which they had been subjected, all foi*cedthem- selves upoil our recollection as we gazed upon the city, the possession of which was the l~resent d recornpence of our exertions. Candahslr is situated on an extensive level, which is bounded on the north and west by picturesque mountains of primitive rock. The city is qundraugulas, and its defenccs uniform. They consist of a wall of mud hardened by ex- posurc to tlie sun, thirty-three feet in height, without revetenzejzt of stone or brick. The em ciente is divided into curtains and semi-circ~llar towers, is strengthened by a low fuusse Bruge, and defended by a ditch ton feet in depth rind twenty-four in width, at prescnt only imperfccily filled with water, but ~vhichcould in a few haul-s be well supplicd from thc cailals of the Urghun- dab that intersect the city. The southern side of this vast area is thirteen hun&+ed,the northern, elevenhundred, the eastern, sixteen hundred, alld the western (which is, in fact, two sides meet- ing in a large angle,) nineteen hundred feet in length. Therc are four grcat gates in this ex- tensive shul~ur-pulzah.* The northern is ciltitlcd * City mall. had traversed, the pi+ the Eeclgal~; the sontlicrn, thc Shilrnipore ; thc hfld cndurccly and the castern, tl~cCabool; and the vcstem, the IIerat. atm~l~~to Besidcs these, thcre are two less consideral~le ected, all fol.ccc1 them- portals in the eastern and western fronts of for- on 0s me upon tification, denolninatcd the Berdoornnee ancl th~ wphlvns the prescll t To~lrhana,or Ar~illery. The parapet is battle- llS. mcnted and loop-holed, and pierced, as is the '11 an extensive level, custom in Asiatic fortresses, with apertures for norlh and west bg thc purpose of throwing vertical missiles into primitive rock. The the ditch. The towers, including those over its defences unif01.m. the gates and at the four gmncl angles of the n~zdliardcl~ecl 'by ex- placc, are sixty-two in numbel; and on these threc fcct ill hcigllt, g~t~lsmig11t have been mounted, as the rampart : or brick. The 672- is wide, and therc are good ernbrazures in the ins and semi-circul ar parapet; but such had been the neglect of the lo~j?tt~s,~e6p=c~ye, Barnkzyes, that we fbund their mtilleq~,con- feet in depth nzld sisting of solnc twenty indiff'erent pieces, pulced sent oulj iruperfect-ly in the ope11 space in front of theis citadel. That , could in a few ho~zl'~ dcfcnce consists of an inner quadrangle of two :anal8 of the Urgllun- huadrecl yards rctrcnched in the centre of the Tile southern side northern face. Within its inclosure arc the undrcd, tlie northern, se~~eralcourts and apartments of the royal sixtccn l~undred,and lately asurped, together with the rule of their facl, two sides meet- mastes, by the brothers of Futih IChnn. Its teen h~mdredfeet in wall is protected on thee sides by a good fosse; ;reat ptcs in this ex- there is a large bastion in its so~~thernface, anti he northern is entitled four smull towels flaulr its easte~x,and four more its western front.