{"product_id":"journal-of-the-disasters-in-affghanistan-1841-2-paperback-9781108044578","title":"Journal of the Disasters in Affghanistan, 1841–2 (Paperback \/ softback) 9781108044578","description":"\u003cfont face=\"Georgia\"\u003e\r\n\u003cp\u003e\u003cfont size=\"6\"\u003eJournal of the Disasters in Affghanistan, 1841–2\u003c\/font\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\r\n\r\n\r\n\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003e\u003cem\u003eLady Sale became an instant heroine when this journal of her captivity in Afghanistan was published in 1843.\u003c\/em\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\r\n\r\n\r\n\u003cp\u003e\u003cfont size=\"4\"\u003eFlorentia Wynch Sale (Author)\u003c\/font\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\r\n\r\n\u003cp\u003e\u003cfont size=\"3\"\u003e9781108044578, Cambridge University Press\u003c\/font\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\r\n\r\n\u003cp\u003e\u003cfont size=\"3\"\u003ePaperback \/ softback, published 16 February 2012\u003c\/font\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\r\n\r\n\u003cp\u003e\u003cfont size=\"3\"\u003e480 pages, 2 maps\u003cbr\u003e21.6 x 14 x 2.7 cm, 0.6 kg\u003c\/font\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\r\n\r\n\r\n\r\n\r\n\r\n\u003cp align=\"justify\"\u003e\u003cstrong\u003e\u003cfont size=\"3\"\u003eLady 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.\u003c\/font\u003e\u003c\/strong\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\r\n\r\n\u003cp\u003e\u003cfont size=\"3\"\u003eVocabulary\u003cbr\u003e Introduction\u003cbr\u003e Part I. Cabul: 1. The Zoormut expedition\u003cbr\u003e 2. Revolt of Tézeen and Bhoodkhak\u003cbr\u003e 3. Departure of Gen. Sale's brigade from Cabul\u003cbr\u003e 4. Losses at the Khood Cabul pass\u003cbr\u003e 5. Terms made with the chiefs\u003cbr\u003e 6. Outbreak in Cabul\u003cbr\u003e 7. Captain Johnson's treasury plundered\u003cbr\u003e 8. Supineness of the British chiefs\u003cbr\u003e 9. Capt. Campbell's regiment repulsed\u003cbr\u003e 10. State of the cantonments\u003cbr\u003e 11. Return of the 37th N.I.\u003cbr\u003e 12. Attack on the Commissariat fort\u003cbr\u003e 13. Loss of Mackenzie's fort\u003cbr\u003e 14. Outbreak in the Kohistan\u003cbr\u003e 15. Want of provisions\u003cbr\u003e 16. Loss of the Commissariat fort\u003cbr\u003e 17. Disastrous attempts to recapture the small fort\u003cbr\u003e 18. Shah Zeman declared King\u003cbr\u003e 19. Recall of Gen. Sale\u003cbr\u003e 20. Position of the cantonments\u003cbr\u003e 21. Arrival of Brig. Shelton in cantonments\u003cbr\u003e 22. Losses at the Rikabashees' fort\u003cbr\u003e 23. Death of Col. Mackrel\u003cbr\u003e 24. Losses at Kandahar\u003cbr\u003e 25. Action on the Western Heights\u003cbr\u003e 26. Affairs in the Kohistan\u003cbr\u003e 27. Accounts from Jellalabad\u003cbr\u003e 28. Dissensions in the British council\u003cbr\u003e 29. Action on the hills above Behmaru\u003cbr\u003e 30. Terms proposed by the enemy\u003cbr\u003e 31. Reply of the Envoy\u003cbr\u003e 32. Difficulty of obtaining supplies\u003cbr\u003e 33. Attack on the captured fort\u003cbr\u003e 34. Disgraceful loss of the fort\u003cbr\u003e 35. The General urges the necessity of negotiating\u003cbr\u003e 36. Terms made with the enemy\u003cbr\u003e 37. Hostages demanded by them\u003cbr\u003e 38. The forts given up to them\u003cbr\u003e 39. The seizure of the Envoy by Mahommed Akbar Khan\u003cbr\u003e 40. News received of the Envoy's death\u003cbr\u003e 41. Negotiations resumed\u003cbr\u003e 42. Preparations for evacuating cantonments\u003cbr\u003e 43. Departure postponed\u003cbr\u003e Part II. Retreat from Cabul: 44. Cantonments evacuated\u003cbr\u003e 45. Difficulties encountered by the rear guard\u003cbr\u003e 46. Loss of the guns and ammunition\u003cbr\u003e 47. Terms made with Mahommed Akbar\u003cbr\u003e 48. Losses in the Khoord Cabul pass\u003cbr\u003e 49. Akbar demands possessions of the ladies and children\u003cbr\u003e 50. Destruction of the rear column\u003cbr\u003e 51. Attempt of the remnant of the army to reach Jugdaluk\u003cbr\u003e 52. Gen. Elphinstone and Brig. Shekton go to Mahommed Akbar\u003cbr\u003e 53. Deliberations of the chiefs\u003cbr\u003e 54. Attack at Judgaluk\u003cbr\u003e 55. The final struggle at Gundamuk\u003cbr\u003e Part III. The Captivity: 56. March of the prisoners towards the Lughman valley\u003cbr\u003e 57. Accommodation at Buddeabad\u003cbr\u003e 58. Accounts from Jellalabad\u003cbr\u003e 59. Severe earthquake\u003cbr\u003e 60. Adventures of Capt. Bygrave\u003cbr\u003e 61. Accounts from the garrison at Ghuznee\u003cbr\u003e 62. Ferocity and cruelty of Mahommed Akbar\u003cbr\u003e 63. Change of jailors\u003cbr\u003e 64. Offers for ransoming the prisoners\u003cbr\u003e 65. Report of the murder of Shah Shoojah\u003cbr\u003e 66. March for Tézeen\u003cbr\u003e 67. Major Pottinger expostulates with the Sirdar\u003cbr\u003e 68. Death of Gen. Elphinstone\u003cbr\u003e 69. Insults offered to his corpse on its way to Jellalabad\u003cbr\u003e 70. Akbar acknowledges that he slew the Envoy\u003cbr\u003e 71. Treachery of Shumshudeen at Ghuznee\u003cbr\u003e 72. Visit to the ladies of Mahommed Shah's family\u003cbr\u003e 73. Account from Jellalalbad\u003cbr\u003e 74. Proceedings at Cabul\u003cbr\u003e 75. March to Khoord Cabul\u003cbr\u003e 76. Offers for exchange of prisoners\u003cbr\u003e 77. Reports from Cabul\u003cbr\u003e 78. The Bala Hissar is surrendered to Akbar\u003cbr\u003e 79. Sufferings of Col. Stoddart and Capt. A. Conolly in Bokhara\u003cbr\u003e 80. Friendly conduct of the Nawaub, Zeman, Shah Khan\u003cbr\u003e 81. Gen. Pollock offers to treat with the Sirdar\u003cbr\u003e 82. Gloomy prospects\u003cbr\u003e 83. Policy of Mahommed Akbar\u003cbr\u003e 84. Death of Capt. John Conolly\u003cbr\u003e 85. Accounts of the Kandahar force\u003cbr\u003e 86. Newspaper controversy\u003cbr\u003e 87. Review of Akbar's conduct\u003cbr\u003e 88. His treatment of the prisoners\u003cbr\u003e 89. Futteh Jung challenges Akbar to battle\u003cbr\u003e 90. Removal of the prisoners to the Loghur country\u003cbr\u003e 91. Proposed plan for their release\u003cbr\u003e 92. March to Bamean\u003cbr\u003e 93. Terms made by the prisoners with their jailor\u003cbr\u003e 94. He hoists the flag of defiance on the fort\u003cbr\u003e 95. The prisoners are joined by several native chiefs\u003cbr\u003e 96. They commence their march\u003cbr\u003e 97. Arrival of Sir Richard Shakespear\u003cbr\u003e 98. Rescue by Gen. 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