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85 | Kaye, History of the War in Afghanistan , vol. II, p. 161. |
86 | Sale, A Journal of the Disasters in Afghanistan , p. 22. |
87 | BL, OIOC, ESL 81: no. 64a of no. 109 (IOR/L/PS/5/162), Extract from a letter from Macnaghten to Auckland, dated Cabool, 29 September 1841. |
88 | Kaye, Lives of Indian Officers , vol. II, p. 286. |
89 | Ibid., p. 287. |
90 | Kashmiri, Akbarnama , ch. 22, The killing of Burnes. |
91 | Mohan Lal, Life of Dost Mohammad , vol. II, pp. 390–1. |
92 | Mirza ‘Ata, Naway Ma’arek , pp. 215–20. |
93 | Kaye, Lives of Indian Officers , vol. II, p. 289. |
94 | BL, OIOC, ESL 88: no. 24 of no. 32, dated 17 August 1842 (IOR/L/PS/5/169), Mohan Lal’s Memo. |
95 | Mirza ‘Ata, Naway Ma’arek , pp. 215–20. |
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1 | Private Collection, The Mss Journal of Captain Hugh Johnson, Paymaster to Shah Soojah’s Force, p. 1, entry for 2 November 1841. |
2 | Ibid., pp. 1–2. |
3 | Pottinger, The Afghan Connection , p. 141. |
4 | Lawrence, Reminiscences of Forty Three Years in India , p. 62. |
5 | Ibid., pp. 63–4. |
6 | Ibid., p. 65. |
7 | Mohan Lal, Life of Dost Mohammad , vol. II, pp. 401–2. |
8 | Mackenzie, Storms and Sunshine , vol. I, p. 105. |
9 | Mohan Lal, Life of Dost Mohammad , vol. II, p. 407. |
10 | Mirza ‘Ata, Naway Ma’arek , pp. 211–24, Events leading to the murder of Burnes and the great revolt. |
11 | Karim, Muharaba Kabul wa Kandahar , pp. 54–7. |
12 | Kaye, History of the War in Afghanistan , vol. II, pp. 163ff. |
13 | Mohan Lal, Life of Dost Mohammad , vol. II, pp. 408–9. |
14 | Kashmiri, Akbarnama , ch. 22, The killing of Burnes. |
15 | BL, Wellesley Papers, Add Mss 37313, James Burnes to James Carnac,1 February 1842, Extract of a Persian Letter in exhortation from the Khans of Cabaul to the Chiefs of the Afreedees, a copy of which was received from Captain Mackinnon by Mr. Robertson at Agra on 20 December. |
16 | Macrory, Signal Catastrophe , p. 155. |
17 | Fayz Mohammad, Siraj ul-Tawarikh , vol. I, p. 249. |
18 | Sale, A Journal of the Disasters in Afghanistan , p. 29; Mirza ‘Ata, Naway Ma’arek , pp. 211–24, Events leading to the murder of Burnes and the great revolt . |
19 | Quoted by Yapp, ‘The Revolutions of 1841–2 in Afghanistan’, p. 380. |
20 | Waqi’at-i-Shah Shuja , p. 132, The Thirty-Fifth Event. |
21 | Ibid., p. 137. |
22 | Ibid. |
23 | Mackenzie, Storms and Sunshine , vol. I, pp. 106–7. |
24 | Lawrence, Reminiscences of Forty Three Years in India , p. 75. |
25 | Sale, A Journal of the Disasters in Afghanistan , p. 39. |
26 | Major-General Sir Vincent Eyre, The Kabul Insurrection of 1841–2 , London, 1879, p. 87. |
27 | Waqi’at-i-Shah Shuja , p. 133, The Thirty-Fifth Event. |
28 | Sale, A Journal of the Disasters in Afghanistan , p. 39. |
29 | Waqi’at-i-Shah Shuja , p. 133, The Thirty-Fifth Event. |
30 | Stocqueler, The Memoirs and Correspondence of Sir William Nott , vol. I, p. 369. |
31 | Waqi’at-i-Shah Shuja , p. 133, The Thirty-Fifth Event. |
32 | Eyre, The Kabul Insurrection of 1841–2 , p. 89. |
33 | Kaye, History of the War in Afghanistan , vol. II, p. 187. |
34 | Sale, A Journal of the Disasters in Afghanistan , pp. 29–32. |
35 | Lawrence, Reminiscences of Forty Three Years in India , pp. 67–9. |
36 | Ibid., p. 69. |
37 | Sale, A Journal of the Disasters in Afghanistan , p. 35. |
38 | ‘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. |
39 | BL, OIOC, ESL 88: no. 47a of no. 32 of 17 August 1842 (IOR/L/PS/5/169), Pottinger to Maddock, 1 February 1842. |
40 | ‘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, 51. |
41 | Haughton, Char-ee-Kar and Service There with the 4th Goorkha Regiment , p. 15. |
42 | Ibid., pp. 21–4 . |
43 | Yapp, Strategies , p. 179. |
44 | BL, OIOC, ESL 88: no. 74 of no. 32 of 17 August 1842 (IOR L/PS/5/169), Court Martial of Himmat Bunneah, ‘An European Special Court of Inquiry held at Candahar by order of Major Genl. Nott commanding Lower Afghanistan for the purpose of enquiring into such matter as may be brought before it’, Candahar, 15 June 1842. |
45 | Stocqueler, The Memoirs and Correspondence of Sir William Nott , vol. I,pp. 394–5. |
46 | Sale, A Journal of the Disasters in Afghanistan , p. 38. |
47 | Mohan Lal, Life of Dost Mohammad , vol. II, p. 413. |
48 | Lawrence, Reminiscences of Forty Three Years in India , pp. 74–5. |
49 | Mackenzie, Storms and Sunshine , vol. I, pp. 106–7. |
50 | Ibid., p. 107. |
51 | Ibid., pp. 108–10. |
52 | Private Collection, Journal of Captain Hugh Johnson, Paymaster to Shah Soojah’s Force, p. 8, entry for 3 November 1841. |
53 | Karim, Muharaba Kabul wa Kandahar , pp. 57–8. |
54 | Sale, A Journal of the Disasters in Afghanistan , p. 46. |
55 | Mackenzie, Storms and Sunshine , vol. I, p. 109. |
56 | Private Collection, Journal of Captain Hugh Johnson, Paymaster to Shah Soojah’s Force, p. 15, entry for 2 December 1841. |
57 | Ibid., p. 16. |
58 | Ibid., p. 15. |
59 | Sale, A Journal of the Disasters in Afghanistan , p. 47. |
60 | Ibid., p. 82. |
61 | Sita Ram, From Sepoy to Subedar , pp. 110–13. |
62 | Mackenzie, Storms and Sunshine , vol. I, pp. 108–10. |
63 | Eyre, The Kabul Insurrection of 1841–2 , p. 116. |