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64
Mackenzie,
Storms and Sunshine
, vol. I, p. 133.
65
Sale,
A Journal of the Disasters in Afghanistan
, p. 66.
66
Ibid., p. 47.
67
Waqi’at-i-Shah Shuja
, p. 137, The Thirty-Fifth Event.
68
Lawrence,
Reminiscences of Forty Three Years in India
, p. 84.
69
Mirza ‘Ata,
Naway Ma’arek
, pp. 211–24, Events leading to the murder of Burnes and the great revolt.
70
Eyre,
The Kabul Insurrection of 1841–2
, p. 124.
71
BL, OIOC, ESL 88: no. 47a of no. 32 of 17 August 1842 (IOR/L/PS/5/169), Pottinger to Maddock, 1 February 1842.
72
Mohan Lal,
Life of Dost Mohammad
, vol. II, p. 416; ‘Personal Narrative of the Havildar Motee Ram of the Shah’s 4th or Ghoorkha Regiment of Light Infantry, Destroyed at Char-ee-kar’, appendix to Haughton,
Char-ee-Kar and Service There with the 4th Goorkha Regiment
, pp. 47–8, 54.
73
‘Personal Narrative of the Havildar Motee Ram of the Shah’s 4th or        Ghoorkha Regiment of Light Infantry, Destroyed at Char-ee-kar’, appendix to Haughton,
Char-ee-Kar and Service There with the 4th Goorkha Regiment
, p. 55.
74
Ibid., p. 56.
75
Eyre,
The Kabul Insurrection of 1841–2
, p. 176.
76
Ibid., p. 162; Mackenzie,
Storms and Sunshine
, vol. I, p. 121.
77
Sale,
A Journal of the Disasters in Afghanistan
, p. 85.
78
Sultan Mohammad Khan Durrani,
Tarikh-i-Sultani
,
p. 271.
79
Sale,
A Journal of the Disasters in Afghanistan
, p. 86.
80
Sultan Mohammad Khan Durrani,
Tarikh-i-Sultani
,
p. 271.
81
Lawrence,
Reminiscences of Forty Three Years in India
, p. 93.
82
Ibid.
83
Fayz Mohammad,
Siraj al-Tawarikh
, vol. I, pp. 251–3.
84
Mackenzie,
Storms and Sunshine
, vol. I, p. 123.
85
Eyre,
The Kabul Insurrection of 1841–2
, p. 182.
86
Kashmiri,
Akbarnama
, ch. 25, Akbar Khan returns to Kabul.
87
Sale,
A Journal of the Disasters in Afghanistan
, p. 120.
88
Yapp, ‘The Revolutions of 1841–2 in Afghanistan’,
p. 347.
89
Mirza ‘Ata,
Naway Ma’arek
, pp. 224–9, Sardar Muhammad Akbar Khan arrives back in Kabul after being detained in Bukhara, and kills Macnaghten.
90
Kashmiri,
Akbarnama
, ch. 25, Akbar Khan returns to Kabul.
91
Mirza ‘Ata,
Naway Ma’arek
, pp. 224–9, Sardar Muhammad Akbar Khan arrives back in Kabul after being detained in Bukhara, and kills Macnaghten.
92
BL, OIOC, ESL 88: no. 47a of no. 32 of 17 August 1842 (IOR/L/PS/5/169), Enclosure AA: Macnaghten to Maddock, n.d.
93
Macrory,
Signal Catastrophe
, p. 178.
94
BL, OIOC, ESL 88: no. 47a of no. 32 of 17 August 1842 (IOR/L/PS/5/169), Enclosure AA: Macnaghten to Maddock, n.d.
95
Mackenzie,
Storms and Sunshine
, vol. I, p. 123.
96
Macrory,
Signal Catastrophe
, p. 180.
97
Lawrence,
Reminiscences of Forty Three Years in India
, pp. 100–1.
98
BL, OIOC, ESL 88: no. 47a of no. 32 of 17 August 1842 (IOR/L/PS/5/169), Enclosure AA: Macnaghten to Maddock, n.d.
99
Macrory,
Signal Catastrophe
, p. 188.
100
BL, OIOC, ESL 88: no. 47a of no. 32 of 17 August 1842 (IOR/L/PS/5/169), Enclosure AA: Macnaghten to Maddock, n.d.
101
Ibid., Macnaghten to Auckland, Encl with Lawrence to Pottinger, 10 May 1842.
102
Waqi’at-i-Shah Shuja
, pp. 138, The Thirty-Fifth Event, The death of Macnaghten.
103
Lawrence,
Reminiscences of Forty Three Years in India
, p. 110.
104
Eden,
Miss Eden’s Letters
, p. 323.
105
Ibid., p. 329.
106
Ibid.
107
Ibid., p. 355.
108
BL, Broughton Papers, Add Mss 37706, fol. 197, Auckland to Nicholls,1 December 1841.
109
Mirza ‘Ata,
Naway Ma’arek
, pp. 224–9, Sardar Muhammad Akbar Khan arrives back in Kabul after being detained in Bukhara, and kills Macnaghten.
110
Lawrence,
Reminiscences of Forty Three Years in India
, p. 111.
111
Mackenzie,
Storms and Sunshine
, vol. I, p. 124.
112
Lawrence,
Reminiscences of Forty Three Years in India
, p. 111.
113
Ibid., pp. 111–12.
114
Fayz Mohammad,
Siraj ul-Tawarikh
, vol. I, pp. 253–7.
115
Yapp, ‘The Revolutions of 1841–2 in Afghanistan’,
p. 349.
116
NAI, Foreign, Secret Consultations, 28 December 1842, no. 480–82, quoted in Mohan Lal’s Memo.
117
Mirza ‘Ata,
Naway Ma’arek
, pp. 224–9, Sardar Muhammad Akbar Khan arrives back in Kabul after being detained in Bukhara, and kills Macnaghten.
118
Hari Ram Gupta,
Panjab, Central Asia and the First Afghan War, Based on Mohan Lal’s Observations
, Chandigarh, 1940, p. 246. Mohan Lal appears to have doubted the truth of Abdul Aziz’s claim.
119
Mohan Lal,
Life of Dost Mohammad
, vol. II, pp. 421–2.
120
BL, OIOC, ESL 88: no. 47a of no. 32 of 17 August 1842 (IOR/L/PS/5/169), Macnaghten to Auckland, Encl. with Lawrence to Pottinger, 10 May 1842.
121
Mirza ‘Ata,
Naway Ma’arek
, pp. 224–9, Sardar Muhammad Akbar Khan arrives back in Kabul after being detained in Bukhara, and kills Macnaghten.
122
NAI, Foreign, Secret Consultations, 28 December 1842, no. 480–82, Mohan Lal’s Memo.
123
Eyre,
The Kabul Insurrection of 1841–2
, p. 216.
124
Lawrence,
Reminiscences of Forty Three Years in India
, p. 139.
125
Mackenzie,
Storms and Sunshine
, vol. I, p. 127.
126
BL, OIOC, ESL 88: no. 47a of no. 32 of 17 August 1842 (IOR/L/PS/5/169), Macnaghten to Auckland, Encl with Lawrence to Pottinger, 10 May 1842; Mackenzie,
Storms and Sunshine
,
vol. II, p.32.
127
Karim,
Muharaba Kabul wa Kandahar
, pp. 66–72.
128
BL, OIOC, ESL 82: Agra Letter, 22 January 1842, (IOR/L/PS/5/163), Pottinger to MacGregor (date unclear).
129
Mirza ‘Ata,
Naway Ma’arek
, pp. 224–9, Sardar Muhammad Akbar Khan arrives back in Kabul after being detained in Bukhara, and kills Macnaghten.

Chapter 8: The Wail of Bugles

 
1
Private Collection, The Mss Journal of Captain Hugh Johnson, Paymaster to Shah Soojah’s Force, p. 30, entry for 6 January 1842.
 
2
Lawrence,
Reminiscences of Forty Three Years in India
, p. 143.
 
3
Kashmiri,
Akbarnama
, ch. 28.
 
4
Ibid.

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