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| 10 | Seaton, From Cadet to Colonel , p. 190. |
| 11 | BL, Hobhouse Diary, Add Mss 43744, 26 August 1842. |
| 12 | BL, Broughton Papers, Add Mss 37707, fols 187–8, Auckland to Hobhouse,18 February 1842. |
| 13 | There is an excellent analysis of this in Yapp, ‘The Revolutions of 1841–2 in Afghanistan’, pp. 350–1. See also Kaye, History of the War in Afghanistan , vol. III, p. 104. |
| 14 | Waqi’at-i-Shah Shuja , p. 141, The Thirty-Fifth Event, The death of Macnaghten. |
| 15 | Kashmiri, Akbarnama , ch. 29, Shuja-ul-Mulk sets out for Jalalabad and is killed at the hands of Shuja-ud-Daula. |
| 16 | Mirza ‘Ata, Naway Ma’arek , pp. 236–9, Muhammad Akbar Khan besieges Jalalabad, Shuja al-Mulk is killed in Kabul. |
| 17 | Mohan Lal, Life of Dost Mohammad , vol. II, pp. 436–8. |
| 18 | NAI, Foreign, Secret Consultations, 8 April 1842, no. 32–3, MacGregor to Maddock, Translation of letters received from Captain MacGregor at Jellalabad on 22 March 1842. |
| 19 | Ibid., ‘ From Shah Shoojah to Captain Macgregor dated 8th Feb and written seemingly in H.M.’s own hand’. |
| 20 | Lawrence, Reminiscences of Forty Three Years in India , pp. 173–4, 168. |
| 21 | Sale, A Journal of the Disasters in Afghanistan , pp. 180–3. |
| 22 | Lawrence, Reminiscences of Forty Three Years in India , pp. 173–4, 170. |
| 23 | Sale, A Journal of the Disasters in Afghanistan , pp. 180–3. |
| 24 | Karim, Muharaba Kabul wa Kandahar , pp. 72–4. |
| 25 | BL, OIOC, ESL 88: no. 36 of no. 32 of 17 August 1842 (IOR L/PS/5/169), Eldred Pottinger to Pollock, 10 July 1842. |
| 26 | Lawrence, Reminiscences of Forty Three Years in India , pp. 173–4, 191. |
| 27 | Mackenzie, Storms and Sunshine , vol. I, pp. 146–7. |
| 28 | Lawrence, Reminiscences of Forty Three Years in India , p. 176. |
| 29 | Sale, A Journal of the Disasters in Afghanistan , p. 237. |
| 30 | Mackenzie, Storms and Sunshine , vol. I, p. 149. |
| 31 | Sale, A Journal of the Disasters in Afghanistan , pp. 190–1. |
| 32 | Seaton, From Cadet to Colonel , pp. 192–4. |
| 33 | NAI, Foreign, Secret Consultations, 29 June 1842, no. 8, To: T. A. Maddock Esq, Secr. to the Govt, Political Dept, From: R. Sale, Major General, Dated Jellalabad, 16 April 1842. |
| 34 | Seaton, From Cadet to Colonel , p. 195. |
| 35 | Broadfoot, The Career of Major George Broadfoot , p. 82. |
| 36 | Seaton, From Cadet to Colonel , pp. 195–6. |
| 37 | Ibid., pp. 197–8. |
| 38 | Pottinger and Macrory, The Ten-Rupee Jezail , p. 167. |
| 39 | BL, OIOC, ESL 85: no. 20 of no. 3 of 21 April 1842, MacGregor to Pollock,14 March 1842. |
| 40 | See Hopkins, The Making of Modern Afghanistan , pp. 75–80, 98–102, 105–7. |
| 41 | BL, OIOC, ESL 83: Agra Letter, 19 February 1842 (IOR/L/PS/5/164), Mahomed Akbar Khan to Sayed Ahai-u-din. |
| 42 | Ibid., Translation of a letter from Mahomed Akbar Khan to Turabaz Khan Ex Chief of Lalpoora. |
| 43 | Mirza ‘Ata, Naway Ma’arek , pp. 236–9, Sardar Mohammad Akbar Khan besieges Jalalabad. |
| 44 | Seaton, From Cadet to Colonel , p. 198. |
| 45 | Ibid., pp. 207–8. |
| 46 | NAI, Foreign, Secret Consultations, 8 April 1842, no. 14–15, n.d., Pollock transmits letter from Captain Mackeson on the wounding of Mohammad Akbar Khan. |
| 47 | Mirza ‘Ata, Naway Ma’arek , pp. 236–9, Sardar Mohammad Akbar Khan besieges Jalalabad. |
| 48 | Fayz Mohammad, Siraj ul-Tawarikh , vol. I, p. 272. |
| 49 | Lawrence, Reminiscences of Forty Three Years in India , p. 183. |
| 50 | For the complicated politics of Kabul at this period, see Yapp, ‘The Revolutions of 1841–2 in Afghanistan’, pp. 350–1. |
| 51 | Fayz Mohammad, Siraj ul-Tawarikh , vol. I, p. 273. |
| 52 | BL, OIOC, ESL, 86: no. 30 of no. 14 of 17 May 1842, Lal to Macgregor, 30 January 1842. |
| 53 | Waqi’at-i-Shah Shuja , p. 141, The Thirty-Fifth Event, The murder of the Shah. |
| 54 | Fayz Mohammad, Siraj ul-Tawarikh , vol. I, p. 274. |
| 55 | BL, OIOC, ESL, 86: no. 30A of no. 14 of 17 May 1842, Lal to Colvin,29 January 1842; also ESL, 84: no. 27 of no. 25 of 22 March 1842, Conolly to Clerk, 26 January 1842. |
| 56 | BL, OIOC, ESL, 85: no. 24 of no. 3 of 21 March 1842, Shuja to MacGregor, recd 7 March 1842. |
| 57 | BL, OIOC, ESL, 86: no. 30 of no. 14 of 17 May 1842 (IOR/L/PS/5/167), Lal to MacGregor, 18 March 1842. |
| 58 | Kashmiri, Akbarnama , ch. 29, Shuja-ul-Mulk sets out for Jalalabad and is killed at the hands of Shuja-ud-Daula. |
| 59 | NAI, Foreign, Secret Consultations, December 1842, no. 480–2, Mohan Lal’s Memorandum of 29 June enclosed with a letter from General Pollock, Commanding in Afghanistan, to Maddock, Secretary to the Governor General, dated Jelalabad, 10 July 1842. |
| 60 | Waqi’at-i-Shah Shuja , p. 141, The Thirty-Fifth Event, The murder of the Shah. |
| 61 | NAI, Foreign, Secret Consultations, December 1842, no. 480–82, Mohan Lal’s Memorandum of 29 June enclosed with a letter from General Pollock, Commanding in Afghanistan, to Maddock, Secretary to the Governor General, dated Jelalabad, 10 July 1842. |
| 62 | Kaye, History of the War in Afghanistan , vol. III, p. 109n. |
| 63 | NAI, Foreign, Secret Consultations, 8 April 1842, no31, Translation of a letter from His Majesty Shah Soojah ool Moolk to Captain MacGregor written by the Shah himself. |
| 64 | Pottinger and Macrory, The Ten-Rupee Jezail , p. 165. |
| 65 | Ibid., pp. 166–7. |
| 66 | Ibid., pp. 169–70. |
| 67 | Waqi’at-i-Shah Shuja , p. 149, The Thirty-Fifth Event, The murder of the Shah. |
| 68 | Mirza ‘Ata, Naway Ma’arek , pp. 237–9, Shuja’ al-Mulk is killed in Kabul. |
| 69 | Ibid. |
| 70 | Waqi’at-i-Shah Shuja , p. 149, The Thirty-Fifth Event, The murder of the Shah. |
| 71 | Ibid. |
| 72 | Gleig, Sale’s Brigade in Afghanistan , pp. 303, 309. |
| 73 | Kashmiri, Akbarnama , ch. 29, Shuja-ul-Mulk sets out for Jalalabad and is killed at the hands of Shuja-ud-Daula. |
| 74 | Punjab Archives, Lahore, from Fraser, Ramgurh to Ochterlony, Ludhiana,3 September 1816, vol. 18, part 2, Case 118, pp. 538–9. |
| 75 | NAI, Foreign, Secret Consultations, 10 April 1834, no. 20, Wade to Bentinck, Translation of a letter from Shah Shuja, 12 March 1834. |
| 76 | Sultan Mohammad Khan Durrani, Tarikh-i-Sultani , p. 212. |
| 77 | These were the words of Josiah Harlan on meeting Shuja for the first time in Ludhiana. Josiah Harlan, ‘Oriental Sketches’, insert at p. 42a, Mss in Chester Country Archives, Pennsylvania, quoted in Macintyre, Josiah the Great , p. 24. |
| 78 | Masson, Narrative of Various Journeys , vol. I, p. ix. |
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