This historic book may have numerous typos and missing text. Purchasers can usually download a free scanned copy of the original book (without typos) from the publisher. Not indexed. Not illustrated. 1846 edition. Excerpt: ...the Brigadier, was very little in agreement with either the duplicity or the impudence of the Afghan. Time passed, and every new day brought some tidings with it more or less to be depended upon. On the 10th the relieving army was heard of as having arrived at the middle of the Khyber. On the 14th ...
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This historic book may have numerous typos and missing text. Purchasers can usually download a free scanned copy of the original book (without typos) from the publisher. Not indexed. Not illustrated. 1846 edition. Excerpt: ...the Brigadier, was very little in agreement with either the duplicity or the impudence of the Afghan. Time passed, and every new day brought some tidings with it more or less to be depended upon. On the 10th the relieving army was heard of as having arrived at the middle of the Khyber. On the 14th letters came in to say that he difficulties of the pass were all surmounted, and that the loss sustained in various actions did not exceed one officer killed, two or three wounded, and about one hundred and thirty-five men killed and wounded. There was, of course, a feeling of satisfaction in the place, at the near prospect of a junction with their friends. But mixed with it there could not fail to be a proud sense of triumph likewise, for they should meet the comers now, not as men meet those who deliver them from mortal danger, but as conquerors welcoming to the scene of their triumphs comrades who have arrived too late to share either the peril and the glory. And as if to remove all doubts on that head, several officers, having obtained leave, set out by twos and threes, to visit Pollock's camp, being yet a great way off. These confirmed by their appearance the reports of the late victory, which were already in circulation through the lines; and spoke of the facility with which the march on Cabul might be executed, and the tarnished honour of the British name retrieved. But they spoke to men on whose minds the tale of the disasters of the previous year had made an impression more deep, perhaps, than the occasion required. General Pollock had formed his own plans, and was not to be drawn away from them by the enthusiastic conversation of young men flushed with recent successes. And so it came to pass, that he neither quickened his progress to...
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