Note 510 — Chapter XXIX · Amīr Nasrullah, a Bokhāran Nero

The issue of our first attempt to meddle in the affairs of Afghanistān is too well known for recapitulation. The British forces left Kābul on January 1842 on their homeward march, and, out of 16,500 troops and camp followers, only one man lived to carry the news of disaster to Jalālābād. See Kaye’s History of the War in Afghanistan, 1851.