Reminiscences of Forty Three Years in India Including the Cabul Disasters Cap
Reminiscences of Forty Three Years in India Including the Cabul Disasters Cap
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83 been evacuated by the enemy, were then destroyed ; a large quantity of grain was recovered in them and brought into cantonments.
These operations, although accompanied by heayy loss to ourselves — no less than 200 soldiers, chiefly Europeans, having fallen — so completely overawed the enemy that for three days following not an Affghan was to be seen, and our commissariat camels were able to proceed un- molested several miles into the country, bringing back supplies and forage. I myself walke...d three miles from the cantonment without seeing an enemy. There is small doubt that had our success on this occasion been vigorously followed up, as it ought to have been, the occupation of the city would have been the result, and once in our hands, backed up as we would have been by a commanding fortress, the Bala Hissar, then garrisoned by our own troops, our position would have been impregnable against any force the enemy could bring against us. But our military chiefs had long abandoned the idea of so safe and obvious a proceeding as seizing the town, and by their supineness, om' partial successes tended rather to weaken us than improve our prospects, as their only result was the loss of valuable lives and the diminution of our garrison.
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To quickly assess the difficulty of the text, read a short excerpt:
83 been evacuated by the enemy, were then destroyed ; a large quantity of grain was recovered in them and brought into cantonments.
These operations, although accompanied by heayy loss to ourselves — no less than 200 soldiers, chiefly Europeans, having fallen — so completely overawed the enemy that for three days following not an Affghan was to be seen, and our commissariat camels were able to proceed un- molested several miles into the country, bringing back supplies and forage. I myself walke...d three miles from the cantonment without seeing an enemy. There is small doubt that had our success on this occasion been vigorously followed up, as it ought to have been, the occupation of the city would have been the result, and once in our hands, backed up as we would have been by a commanding fortress, the Bala Hissar, then garrisoned by our own troops, our position would have been impregnable against any force the enemy could bring against us. But our military chiefs had long abandoned the idea of so safe and obvious a proceeding as seizing the town, and by their supineness, om' partial successes tended rather to weaken us than improve our prospects, as their only result was the loss of valuable lives and the diminution of our garrison.
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