Journal of the Disasters in Affghanistan, 1841–2 de Florentia Wynch Sale

Journal of the Disasters in Affghanistan, 1841–2: Cambridge Library Collection - Naval and Military History

Florentia Wynch Sale

en Limba Engleză Paperback – 15 feb 2012

Lady Sale (née Florentia Wynch, 1790–1853) became an instant heroine when her journal of the disastrous events in Afghanistan in 1841–2 was published in 1843. The wife of Sir Robert Sale, second-in-command of the British forces, she was taken hostage, along with her daughter and baby grand-daughter, after the massacre of over 4,500 British troops at Kabul, while her husband commanded a besieged garrison at Jalalabad. The small group of hostages was moved from place to place, with only the clothes they stood up in, to evade attempts at rescue over a period of nine months. Eventually, they were able to bribe a tribal leader to release them, and they met up with a British rescue party just before Afghani pursuers overtook them. Lady Sale's diary, carried in a cloth bag at her waist, was published almost unedited, and is an extraordinary account of her ordeal.

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Vocabulary; Introduction; Part I. Cabul: 1. The Zoormut expedition; 2. Revolt of Tézeen and Bhoodkhak; 3. Departure of Gen. Sale's brigade from Cabul; 4. Losses at the Khood Cabul pass; 5. Terms made with the chiefs; 6. Outbreak in Cabul; 7. Captain Johnson's treasury plundered; 8. Supineness of the British chiefs; 9. Capt. Campbell's regiment repulsed; 10. State of the cantonments; 11. Return of the 37th N.I.; 12. Attack on the Commissariat fort; 13. Loss of Mackenzie's fort; 14. Outbreak in the Kohistan; 15. Want of provisions; 16. Loss of the Commissariat fort; 17. Disastrous attempts to recapture the small fort; 18. Shah Zeman declared King; 19. Recall of Gen. Sale; 20. Position of the cantonments; 21. Arrival of Brig. Shelton in cantonments; 22. Losses at the Rikabashees' fort; 23. Death of Col. Mackrel; 24. Losses at Kandahar; 25. Action on the Western Heights; 26. Affairs in the Kohistan; 27. Accounts from Jellalabad; 28. Dissensions in the British council; 29. Action on the hills above Behmaru; 30. Terms proposed by the enemy; 31. Reply of the Envoy; 32. Difficulty of obtaining supplies; 33. Attack on the captured fort; 34. Disgraceful loss of the fort; 35. The General urges the necessity of negotiating; 36. Terms made with the enemy; 37. Hostages demanded by them; 38. The forts given up to them; 39. The seizure of the Envoy by Mahommed Akbar Khan; 40. News received of the Envoy's death; 41. Negotiations resumed; 42. Preparations for evacuating cantonments; 43. Departure postponed; Part II. Retreat from Cabul: 44. Cantonments evacuated; 45. Difficulties encountered by the rear guard; 46. Loss of the guns and ammunition; 47. Terms made with Mahommed Akbar; 48. Losses in the Khoord Cabul pass; 49. Akbar demands possessions of the ladies and children; 50. Destruction of the rear column; 51. Attempt of the remnant of the army to reach Jugdaluk; 52. Gen. Elphinstone and Brig. Shekton go to Mahommed Akbar; 53. Deliberations of the chiefs; 54. Attack at Judgaluk; 55. The final struggle at Gundamuk; Part III. The Captivity: 56. March of the prisoners towards the Lughman valley; 57. Accommodation at Buddeabad; 58. Accounts from Jellalabad; 59. Severe earthquake; 60. Adventures of Capt. Bygrave; 61. Accounts from the garrison at Ghuznee; 62. Ferocity and cruelty of Mahommed Akbar; 63. Change of jailors; 64. Offers for ransoming the prisoners; 65. Report of the murder of Shah Shoojah; 66. March for Tézeen; 67. Major Pottinger expostulates with the Sirdar; 68. Death of Gen. Elphinstone; 69. Insults offered to his corpse on its way to Jellalabad; 70. Akbar acknowledges that he slew the Envoy; 71. Treachery of Shumshudeen at Ghuznee; 72. Visit to the ladies of Mahommed Shah's family; 73. Account from Jellalalbad; 74. Proceedings at Cabul; 75. March to Khoord Cabul; 76. Offers for exchange of prisoners; 77. Reports from Cabul; 78. The Bala Hissar is surrendered to Akbar; 79. Sufferings of Col. Stoddart and Capt. A. Conolly in Bokhara; 80. Friendly conduct of the Nawaub, Zeman, Shah Khan; 81. Gen. Pollock offers to treat with the Sirdar; 82. Gloomy prospects; 83. Policy of Mahommed Akbar; 84. Death of Capt. John Conolly; 85. Accounts of the Kandahar force; 86. Newspaper controversy; 87. Review of Akbar's conduct; 88. His treatment of the prisoners; 89. Futteh Jung challenges Akbar to battle; 90. Removal of the prisoners to the Loghur country; 91. Proposed plan for their release; 92. March to Bamean; 93. Terms made by the prisoners with their jailor; 94. He hoists the flag of defiance on the fort; 95. The prisoners are joined by several native chiefs; 96. They commence their march; 97. Arrival of Sir Richard Shakespear; 98. Rescue by Gen. Sale; Addenda; Appendix.