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5
Sale,
A Journal of the Disasters in Afghanistan
, pp. 132–4.
 
6
Ibid., p. 147.
 
7
Lawrence,
Reminiscences of Forty Three Years in India
, p. 96.
 
8
Quoted by Peter Hopkirk in
The Great Game
,
p. 258.
 
9
Eyre,
The Kabul Insurrection of 1841–2
, pp. 247–8.
10
Private Collection, Journal of Captain Hugh Johnson, Paymaster to Shah Soojah’s Force, p. 30, entry for 29 December 1841.
11
Gupta,
Panjab, Central Asia and the First Afghan War, Based on Mohan Lal’s Observations
, pp. 176–8.
12
Sale,
A Journal of the Disasters in Afghanistan
, p. 141.
13
Waqi’at-i-Shah Shuja
, p. 138, The Thirty-Fifth Event, The death of Macnaghten.
14
Mohan Lal,
Life of Dost Mohammad
, vol. II, pp. 428–9.
15
NAI, Foreign, Secret Consultations, 1 June 1842, no. 19, Shuja’s letter to the Governor General on the causes which led to the murder of Sir Wm Macnaghten (free translation).
16
Ibid.
17
Lawrence,
Reminiscences of Forty Three Years in India
, p. 142.
18
Eyre,
The Kabul Insurrection of 1841–2
, p. 249.
19
Sale,
A Journal of the Disasters in Afghanistan
, p. 142.
20
Ibid., p. 143.
21
Private Collection, Journal of Captain Hugh Johnson, Paymaster to Shah Soojah’s Force, pp. 30–1, entry for 6 January 1842.
22
Lawrence,
Reminiscences of Forty Three Years in India
, p. 144.
23
Eyre,
The Kabul Insurrection of 1841–2
, p. 258.
24
Mackenzie,
Storms and Sunshine
, vol. I, p. 135.
25
Ibid.
26
Eyre,
The Kabul Insurrection of 1841–2
, p. 259.
27
Lawrence,
Reminiscences of Forty Three Years in India
, pp. 145–6.
28
Ibid., p. 146.
29
Eyre,
The Kabul Insurrection of 1841–2
, p. 261.
30
Ibid.
31
Brydon Diary, quoted in John C. Cunningham,
The Last Man: The Life and Times of Surgeon Major William Brydon CB
,
Oxford, 2003, p. 88.
32
Eyre,
The Kabul Insurrection of 1841–2
, pp. 261, 265.
33
Private Collection, Journal of Captain Hugh Johnson, Paymaster to Shah Soojah’s Force, p. 31, entry for 7 January 1842.
34
Ibid.
35
Sale,
A Journal of the Disasters in Afghanistan
, p. 149.
36
Eyre,
The Kabul Insurrection of 1841–2
, p. 264.
37
Seaton,
From Cadet to Colonel
, p. 138.
38
Private Collection, Journal of Captain Hugh Johnson, Paymaster to Shah Soojah’s Force, p. 33, entry for 8 January 1842.
39
Eyre,
The Kabul Insurrection of 1841–2
, p. 265.
40
Lawrence,
Reminiscences of Forty Three Years in India
, p. 151.
41
Sale,
A Journal of the Disasters in Afghanistan
, p. 155.
42
Private Collection, Journal of Captain Hugh Johnson, Paymaster to Shah Soojah’s Force, p. 34, entry for 8 January 1842.
43
Lawrence,
Reminiscences of Forty Three Years in India
, pp. 154–5.
44
Sale,
A Journal of the Disasters in Afghanistan 1841–2
, p. 155.
45
Kashmiri,
Akbarnama
, ch. 28.
46
BL, OIOC, Mss Eur C703, Diary of Captain William Anderson, entry for9 January 1842.
47
Karim,
Muharaba Kabul wa Kandahar
, pp. 66–72.
48
Sale,
A Journal of the Disasters in Afghanistan 1841–2
, p. 158.
49
Karim,
Muharaba Kabul wa Kandahar
, pp. 66–72.
50
Private Collection, Journal of Captain Hugh Johnson, Paymaster to Shah Soojah’s Force, p. 41, entry for 9 January 1842.
51
National Army Museum, Diary of Surgeon-Major William Brydon, NAM 8301/60, entry for 10 January 1842.
52
BL, OIOC, Mss Eur F 89/54, First Elphinstone Memorandum, n.d.
53
Lawrence,
Reminiscences of Forty Three Years in India
, p. 163.
54
Private Collection, Journal of Captain Hugh Johnson, Paymaster to Shah Soojah’s Force, p. 36, entry for 10 January 1842.
55
Ibid.
56
Mackenzie,
Storms and Sunshine
, vol. I, p. 142.
57
Sita Ram,
From Sepoy to Subedar
, pp. 114–15.
58
National Army Museum, Diary of Surgeon-Major William Brydon, NAM 8301/60, entry for 13 January 1842.
59
‘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. 57–8.
60
Seaton,
From Cadet to Colonel
, p. 188; Pottinger and Macrory,
The Ten-Rupee Jezail
, p. 197.
61
Sale,
A Journal of the Disasters in Afghanistan
, p. 160.
62
National Army Museum, NAM 6912–6, Souter Letter, Lieutenant Thomas Souter to his Wife.
63
Ibid. The colours were later returned ‘though divested of the tassels and most of its tinsel’.
64
National Army Museum, NAM 8301/60, Diary of Surgeon-Major William Brydon, entry for 13 January 1842.
65
Seaton,
From Cadet to Colonel
, p. 186.
66
Mirza ‘Ata,
Naway Ma’arek
, pp. 230–2, Pottinger succeeds Macnaghten, leaves Kabul and is plundered.

Chapter 9: The Death of a King

 
1
Delhi Gazette
, 2 February 1842.
 
2
Munshi Abdul Karim’s
Muharaba Kabul wa Kandahar
was for example published in Lucknow in 1849 and in Kanpur in 1268/1851; Qasim-Ali-khan ‘Qasim’
Akbarabadi
’
s
Zafar-nama-i Akbari
(as in Sprenger), or
Akbar-nama
(as in Peshawar catalogue, completed in 1260/1844), was published in
Agra
,
1272/1855–6.
 
3
Charles Allen,
Soldier Sahibs: The Men Who Made the North-West Frontier
, London, 2000, p. 43.
 
4
BL, Broughton Papers, Add Mss 37707, fols 187–8, Auckland to Hobhouse,18 February 1842.
 
5
Hopkirk,
The Great Game
,
pp. 270–1.
 
6
PRO, Ellenborough Papers, 30/12/89, Ellenborough to Peel, 21 February 1842.
 
7
Pottinger and Macrory,
The Ten-Rupee Jezail
, pp. 162–3.
 
8
NAI, Foreign, Secret Consultations, 31 January 1842, no. 70a, Clerk to Captain Nicholson, i/c of Dost Mohammad Khan, camp, Saharanpore, 12 January 1842.
 
9
NAI, Foreign, Secret Consultations, 15 June 1842, no. 34, Captain P. Nicholson with Dost Mohammad Khan, to Clerk, Mussoorie, 2 May 1842.

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