44th Foot
44th Regt
5th Light Cavalry
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Afghanistan prisoners
Ali Mahomed
Author_Frank Wilson
Author_Vincent Eyre
Bala Hissar
Bengal Native Infantry
British army Afghanistan 1842 retreat
British imperial history
Broke Ground
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Category=NHW
colonial military campaigns
dramatic episodes
Eleventh Hour
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Escape
False Position
First Anglo-Afghan War
historical eyewitness account
Horse Artillery Gun
Human Suffering
Le Geyt
Lord Auckland
MAJOR POTTINGER
military retreat analysis
Military Transactions
Mountain Train
nineteenth-century captivity
Permanent Occupation
Postern Gate
Red Field
Reduce
Sir Alexander
South West Bastion
Terre Plein
Thunder Storm
Product details
- ISBN 9780367264987
- Weight: 600g
- Dimensions: 156 x 234mm
- Publication Date: 04 Sep 2019
- Publisher: Taylor & Francis Ltd
- Publication City/Country: GB
- Product Form: Hardback
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The destruction of the British army while retreating from Afghanistan in 1842 is one of the most dramatic episodes in British imperial history. Lieutenant Vincent Eyre was present, and kept a diary throughout. This book, first published in 1843 and reissued in 1976, is Eyre’s account of the events leading up to the retreat, the disastrous withdrawal itself, and his time spent in captivity.
