Note 53 — Chapter V

In justice to Colonel St. John, I must say that I have since learned that he reported later in the day, to General Burrows, that the whole of Ayub’s army was at Sangbur. This report was disregarded for the following reason: A British officer of the 3rd Scind Horse stated that he had visited Sangbur that day with a cavalry patrol, and that only a few irregulars were found there. Colonel St. John’s information was quite correct, as our prisoners told us after the battle of Candahar. What village did the officer really reconnoitre?