Char-Ee-Kar and Service There With the 4th Goorkha Regiment (Shah Shooja´s Force) In 1841
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Excerpt from Char-Ee-Kar and Service There With the 4th Goorkha Regiment (Shah Shooja´s Force) In 1841: An Episode of the First Afghan War It will be remembered by some who read this account that, on my return to England after the close of the Afghan Campaign in 1843, I was earnestly requested by them to publish a narrative of the events I witnessed, or in which I took part during that Campaign. It is desirable, therefore, to record the reasons which induced me to abstain from doing so then; as also those by which I have been influenced, after the lapse of a generation, in compiling the statements here prefaced. Several narratives, some especially referring to the disastrous period of the campaign, have been published. One in particular, Eyre´s Journal, contained an account of the defence of Char-ee-kar from the pen of my friend and companion. Major Eldred Pottinger, written while he was still held a prisoner by the Afghans; it contained some expressions which, had I been at the writers elbow, he would doubtless have altered; but it was sent home for publication before we met. On the whole, it was a fair account; though from the fact that the writer of it was wounded, while acting as a volunteer with the Native Artillery, within a few Rours of his taking refuge with our garrison, and confined to bis bed till we were about to retreat, it was impossible he could be perfectly informed of all that took place at that time. I was not ambitious of parading my name before the public, and I knew very well that if I wrote a full and true account, with such comments as I should then have felt bound to make, if writing for public information, I should hurt the feelings of the friends of many deceased brother officers, raise a nest of hornets about my own ears, and enter an arena of literary strife, for which I was unsuited by habit and inclination. For these reasons I remained silent. Since then, from time to time, writers who had occasion to refer to Char-ee kar, have frequently made the mistake of attributing the defence of that post to Eldred Pottinger; but this has generally occurred in a way which I could only meet publicly by a lengthy narrative, and on one notable occasion by appearing to side with my gallant comrade´s enemies. About the Publisher Forgotten Books publishes hundreds of thousands of rare and classic books. Find more at www.forgottenbooks.com This book is a reproduction of an important historical work. Forgotten Books uses state-of-the-art technology to digitally reconstruct the work, preserving the original format whilst repairing imperfections present in the aged copy. In rare cases, an imperfection in the original, such as a blemish or missing page, may be replicated in our edition. We do, however, repair the vast majority of imperfections successfully; any imperfections that remain are intentionally left to preserve the state of such historical works.
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