The Kabul insurrection of 1841-42 / (Record no. 41583)

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Classification number DS363.
Item number E974 1879
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Personal name Eyre, Vincent, Sir,
Dates associated with a name 1811-1881.
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Title The Kabul insurrection of 1841-42 /
Statement of responsibility, etc revised and corrected by Vincent Eyre ; edited by G. B. Malleson.
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Place of publication, distribution, etc London :
Name of publisher, distributor, etc WM. H. Allen & Co.,
Date of publication, distribution, etc 1879.
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Extent xi, 335 pages :
Other physical details maps ;
Dimensions 30 cm.
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General note “Revised and Corrected from lieutenant Eyre’s original manuscript”—cover page.
General note “The Kabul Insurrection of 1841‒42 by Sir Vincent Eyre (1811‒81) is an updated and expanded edition of his The Military Operations at Cabul, originally published in 1843. Eyre was an officer in the Indian army who served as commissary of ordnance in the Kabul Field Force that marched into Afghanistan in the fall of 1839. He arrived in Kabul in April 1840, bringing with him a large quantity of ordnance stores. In November 1841 he was caught up in the uprising in Kabul by the Afghans against the Anglo-Indian force in which Sir Alexander Burnes was killed. The occupiers were besieged in their cantonments and Eyre was severely wounded. Under a treaty with the Afghan government, in early 1842 the Anglo-Indian force was given safe passage to evacuate the country. Accompanied by his wife and child, Eyre joined the column heading eastward but, along with the other British soldiers and civilians, he was taken hostage by the amir, Akbar Khan (1816–45, ruled 1842–45). The British hostages spent nearly nine months in captivity and suffered many privations, including severe cold and the effects of an earthquake and its aftershocks. In August 1842 the captives were marched north towards Bamyan in the Hindu Kush under the threat of being sold as slaves to the Uzbeks. They finally were released on September 20, after one of the prisoners, Major Pottinger, succeeded in buying off the Afghan commander of their escort. Prior to his release, Eyre had managed to smuggle the manuscript of his journal in parts to a friend in India, who sent it to England where, with the help of Eyre’s relatives, it was published the following year as The Military Operations at Cabul, as were his Prison Sketches, Comprising Portraits of the Cabul Prisoners, and Other Subjects. Eyre went on to have a distinguished army career, and retired with the rank of major general in October 1863. With the onset of the Second Anglo-Afghan War in late 1878, Eyre decided to reissue his journal from the earlier war. Published in 1879, The Kabul Insurrection of 1841‒42 contains a new author’s preface and two new preliminary chapters, the first a brief account of Afghanistan and its inhabitants, the second a retrospective, from the vantage point of the late 1870s, on the First Anglo-Afghan War (1839‒42). The contents of the older book are then reproduced, with the journal beginning at chapter four. The Kabul Insurrection of 1841‒42 includes a fold-out map by Eyre of the Kabul cantonment and surrounding country that appeared in the older book, a sketch map of Afghanistan, and three appendices with the texts of documents relating to the 1841”—copied form website.
General note The Library of Congress donated copies of the digitized material (along with extensive bibliographic records) containing more than 163,000 pages of documents to ACKU, the collections that include thousands of historical, cultural, and scholarly materials dating from the early 1300s to the 1990s includes books, manuscripts, maps, photographs, newspapers and periodicals related to Afghanistan in Pushto, Dari, as well as in English, French, German, Russian and other European languages ACKU has a PDF copy of the item.
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Linkage Includes bibliographical references.
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Language note English
650 #0 - SUBJECT ADDED ENTRY--TOPICAL TERM
Topical term or geographic name as entry element Afghan Wars.
Topical term or geographic name as entry element British Intervention (Afghanistan : 1838-1842).
651 #0 - SUBJECT ADDED ENTRY--GEOGRAPHIC NAME
Geographic name Afghanistan – History – British Intervention, 1838-1842.
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Uniform Resource Identifier <a href="https://doi.org/10.29171/azu_acku_ds363_e974_1879">https://doi.org/10.29171/azu_acku_ds363_e974_1879</a>
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    Library of Congress Classification     Afghanistan Centre at Kabul University Afghanistan Centre at Kabul University 23/01/2018   DS363.E974 1879 3ACKU000505395 23/01/2018 23/01/2018 Monograph The digital file donated from Library of Congress-World Digital Library, PDF is available in ACKU.