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Narrative of the Campaign of the Indus in Sind and Kaubool in 1838-9

Posted on July 7, 2010 By Jamal Panhwar No Comments on Narrative of the Campaign of the Indus in Sind and Kaubool in 1838-9

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Purchase of this book includes free trial access to www.million-books.com where you can read more than a million books for free. This is an OCR edition with typos. Excerpt from book: UNEXPECTED SUMMONS CHAPTER II. March to join head-quarters.?Vast area covered by our baggage-train.?First view of Ghizni.?Amusing military metamorphosis.?Attack on Ghizni commenced.?Ineffectual firing of the enemy.?Orders to move ground.? Strange combination of the sweet and terrible.?Ancient minarets.?Great merit of the capture of Ghizni.?Mismanagement of the enemy ? their formidable wall- guns.?Intelligence from Dost Mahomed’s nephew.? Enemy assemble in our rear.?Prisoners beheaded by Shah Soojah.?Horrible mode of execution?its injustice.?Discreditable position of the British officials. On Saturday, the 20th July, we had dined, and were anticipating a night’s rest, but in homely phraseology we were ” reckoning without our host;” for about eight in the evening arrived an express from the advance, directing our immediate march to join head-quarters. We had made a stage of sixteen miles in seven hours in the morning; that is to say, first bugle a quarter to one o’clock, march at TO ADVANCE. 23 two o’clock, and arrival after nine o’clock, ? a weary journey! Happy for those who had slept through the day; I had not. The bugle sounded, the line formed, and we marched at nine o’clock, and travelled till midnight, a distance under eight miles. We were told that the advanced columns were close to us, and we saw the fires of their pickets; and a line was assigned us to stretch our weary limbs on the ground, and snatch the brief repose allowed until daybreak, when we were again to advance. Scarcely, however, had we made ourselves as comfortable as a military cloak on the bare heath, with a stone for a pillow, would allow, ?and many a tune have I less enjoyed a luxurious bed, with all the voluptuous appliances of repose, than I now blessed, my mother earth below, and the canop…

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