Capitolo 11
it is convinced that you don't have any middle course to pursue with safety and
with, honour.' The Government of India, while hesitating to the last one, it failed
in to adopt both the alternatives.
In November, 1841, Mr. Alexander Burnes was untrustworthily murdered by a
attacks rioting in Cabul that was followed by an insurrection and the defeat of
our troops. Elphinstone Generale that it was in command while writing to Mr. W.
McNaghten November 24, it said that 'from the lack of provisions and
you look for, the state reduced of our troops, the great number of wounded and
ill, the difficulty to defend the wide and sick-situated one
billeting that we occupy, the near approach in winter, our communications
cuts, any perspective of the relief and the whole country in arm against
us, I am of opinion that some longest is not feasible to maintain ours
you position in this country, and that you should benefit him to of the
offers to negotiate that you/he/she has been done to you.'
This was conclusive. Our Envoy soon in December he/she met the Afghan heads,
and it was immediately of accord that us we should evacuate the country and that
Dost Mahomed that it was in exile in India you/he/she should return. December 23,
Mr. with which William McNaghten has untrustworthily been murdered to a lecture
the Afghan Sirdars, inside sight of the British billeting and then
come at the end.
The British strength to Cabul, leaving his/her guns, shops and treasure
behind, its retreat started January 6 th 1842; but incessantly
attached during his/her March, and it almost annihilated in the Koord Cabul
Footsteps, stopped existing as an organized body. Elphinstone Generale and
the other officers, invited to a Khan lecture of Akbar they were forcedly
prisoner as hostages and January 13 a solitary English (Dr.
Brydon) it reached Jellalabad, while being, with the exception of some
imprisoned, the soles remaining representative of the strength.
I have given war to this short squirt of the first Afghan because,
disastrous as it was, the causes of our failure were due far in everything