This historic book may have numerous typos and missing text. Purchasers can download a free scanned copy of the original book (without typos) from the publisher. Not indexed. Not illustrated. 1851 Excerpt: ... night a few Afghans came down to the Khoorrum outpost, and fired four or five shots; but finding the place well occupied, retired again. To-day Cortlandt had two hundred men at work at it; pulled an old door out of another fort, and set it up in the outpost; and the place is now tenable. February 12th.--Asked Taylor ...
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This historic book may have numerous typos and missing text. Purchasers can download a free scanned copy of the original book (without typos) from the publisher. Not indexed. Not illustrated. 1851 Excerpt: ... night a few Afghans came down to the Khoorrum outpost, and fired four or five shots; but finding the place well occupied, retired again. To-day Cortlandt had two hundred men at work at it; pulled an old door out of another fort, and set it up in the outpost; and the place is now tenable. February 12th.--Asked Taylor to go and inspect the repairs of the Khoorrum outpost. Fifty horse along with him for fear of accidents. Returned at sunset, and reports walls fourteen feet high all round, but want a rampart to enable the garrison to fire from them. Door also weak. Mean Munawurooddeen came to take his leave to go to Sungurh; said all chance of the allies coming together was now at an end. The Khostees have refused to come on account of the snow. The Muhsood Vizeerees are fighting among themselves; the son of one chief, Jehangeer, having killed the son of another chief, Shahzad, and thus thrown the tribe into complete confusion. The Dourees, deserted on all sides, are inclined to throw themselves on our mercy, and only wait for the least overture to make a formal submission. This is rushing on to their fate! Cortlandt has similar information from other quarters. As this is the last mention I shall probably have to make of these remote Vizeerees, I may as well append the following memorandum: The The Vizeerees of When the rumours of this Dour invasion first reached me, I duly reported it to the Acting-Resident at Lahore. With that promptness to meet danger which was common to him, and the brother for whom he was acting, Mr. John Lawrence immediately ordered another regiment (the Futteh Pultun) to march from its station, at Hussun Abdal (between the Indus and the Jheylum), to Dera Ishmael Khan, the capital of General Cortlandt's province, and there await my order...
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