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MORNING EDETION

DESPATCHES FROM

TNi) lAE

SUPPLEMENT TO FRIDAY'S
GAZETTE.
INDIA BOARD, J. 8, 1841.
The fAlowintg Dispatches hare been this day received
at the East India House :
From the Governor-General of India in Council to the
Secret Cernmit:ee of the Court of Directors of the
East India Company, dated Nov. 16, 1810.
(Extract.)
We reported to you the brilliant victory achieved at
barneean ever the combined forges of the Walce of Khoo-
loom and Dust Mahorned by Brigadier Dennie ; and we
have now the honour of forwarding the official report of
that spirited affair, which you will be, happy to learn has
beon productive of highly beneficial results.
It having bent] deemed necespry to send a military
force into Kohi,tan, one, of the strength here noted,• was
accordingly despatched into that country under the com-
mand of Major-General Sir Robert Sale, E.C.B. For a
knowledge of the success which has attended that distin•
uish ed Officer's military operations in Kohistan, we mus.
beg lesve to refer you to the c.flicial reports.
F;

'rom Major- General Sir Willoughby Cotton, G. C. 8.,
Commanding the Forces in Atrgbanittan, to the Secre-
tary lo the Governmant of India.
AtTgbanistcn, Head-Quarters, Camp, Cabool,
Oct. 4, 1840.
S:r,—l have now the honour to forAard Brigadier
Dennie% report of his action with the combined force
under Dost Mahomed Khan and the Walee of Khootoom,
on the 1 8t h inst.

This official ;count corrects some inaccuracies in my
letter of the 23d, which was framed upon the Brigadier's
hurried letter written on the field. Captain Hart, of the
Janbazecs, was not wounded, as at first reported ; and it
appears that the loss of the enemy, although very severe,
Was not so great in killed as mentioned in my first account.
The rout, li,vtever, was complete.
The r, sults of this action have been in all respects
most satisfactory and highly conducive to the public inte-
rests at a very critical conjuncture, and I cannot but feel
sensible that these important consequences are to be attri-
buted to the decision and spirit of the Brigadier's attack
Schema he found himself with so small a force in the pre-
sence of the main body of the enemy, and to the gallant
bearing of the troops engaged.
ti,,refure, beg to recommend the officers and troops
employed on this service to the favourable consideration of
the Right Honourable the Governor-Gereral.
I have the honour to be, &c.,
WILLOUGHBY COTTON,
Major-General, Commanding the Troops in
Affghanistan.

From Brigadier Dennie to Sir Willoughby Cotton.
Camp, Bamecan, Sept. 18, 1840.
ir--My last communication will have apprised you: of
or basing crossed the Irak mountain.
At the urgent representations of Dr. Lord, Political
Agent, of the proximity of the enemy to Bamecan, I con-
tinued to press on to its relief by forced marches, and ar-
rived here on the 14th instant. That same evening, hay-
ing drawn out the Ghoorkah regiment, I disarmed Captain
Hopkins' corps of Affghaus, who, although loaded, offered
no resistance; and this essential duty, I am happy to say,
was performed without difficulty. Finding Ho enemy in
the neighbourhood, I proceeded to make arrangements for
an advance on Syghan, where it appeared the enemy
really was in force.
These measures were, however, rendered unnecessary by
his actual but unexpected presence.
Allow me to congratulate you in our having obtained a
complete and decisive victory over the conjoint army of
post Alahomed Khan and his Oosbeg allies under the
Walee of Khooloom. Last evening I received informa-
tion from my advanced posts, that bodies of cavalry were
. • entering the valky from the great defile in our front, six
• • miles from hence. Wishing to draw them well on, I did
not discourage their approach, but learning this morning
•. • that they had attacked a fortified village that was friendly
to us, and as these people had claims on our protection, it
ueearric necessary to drive off their assailants.
From the reports brought in I was led to conclude that
only a few hundred had entered the valley, and therefore
took vvith rue or ly one-third of our force, with a six-
- pounder gun &nd howitzer.
I - •
confess I was taken by surprise, after driving in what
Proved to be only their advanced party, to find an army in
lily front, To have sent back for reinforcements would
have caused delay, and given confidence to the enemy ; it
14 Quid have checked the forward feeling that animated the
Party with me, and gave assurance of success.
The enemy had got possession of the chain of forts be-
fore us, reaching to the mouth of the defile. They drew
t'Po and attempted to make a stand at each, with the main
body, while their wings crowned the heights on either side.
In dislodging them from the latter, I am sorry to say the
Goorkahs suffered. After four or five vollies, seeingour steady
and rapid advance, the whole force appeared to us to
lose heart, and fled in a confused mass to the gorge of the
Pass. I now ordered the whole of the cavalry in pursuit,
who drove them four miles up the defile, cutting down
great numbers and scattering them in all directions, many
throwing away their arms, and escaping up the hills.

Of the deserters from Captain corps, not a
few have paid the penalty of their treachery, and their
muskets and accoutrements were found in all directions.
The Host, and his son Alahomed Afzul Khan, and the
NVale.'oeved their escape to the fleetness of their horses,
and Were last seen with not more than two hundred fol.
1°17" ',found them.
'file prisoners report that the Ex-Chief was wounded
early- in the day. His only gun, his kettle drums,
with his camp, ammunition, and previsions, have fallen
into 114 r hands.
The number of the enemy was at least 6,000, and those
Ousbego.
I can form' no accurate estimate of their killed and
Wounded, but their loss must have been considerable.
I unclose a list of our casualties, and my order of the
daY, in which I have endeavoured to express my sense of
the conduct of the officers and men in this brilliant affair.
I have the honour to be, &c.
W. H. DENNIE, Brigadier Commanding
N. Frontier.

Return of the Force employed against the Enemy, under
the Orders of Brigadier W. H. Dennie, C. 8., at Ba-
rrmean, September 18, 1840.
2 PISCQS of Morse Artillery, with detail---1 lieutenant, 1
staff sergeant, 2 havildars, 1 drummer, 33 rank and file,
7 gun lascars.
4 C ornpanies 35th Regt.-1 captain, 1 lieutenant, 2 en-
signs, 2 subedars, 3 jemedars, 16 havildars, 6 drummers,
219 rank and file.
4 Companies Gimorkah Batt. —2 lieutenants, 1 staff ser-
geant, 5 subedars, 4 jemedars, 17 havildars, 4 drummers,
252 rank and file.
Detachment Anderson's Horse-1 lieutenant, 100 rank
and file (including native commissioned and non-com-
missioned officers).
Detachment Hart's Janbauze-1 captain, 200 rank and file.
Total-2 captains, 5 lieutenants, 2 ensigns, 2 staff
sergeants, 7 subedars, 7 jernedarz, 35 havildars, 11
drummers, 804 rank and file, 7 gun lasears.
W. H. DENNIE, Brigadier.
Return

.eturn of the Casualties sustained by the Force ern-
Ployecl g ainst the Enemy, under Order of Brigadier
belittle, C. 8., at Bartle can, Sept. 18, 1840.
4Jetachment 35th Regiment-2 sepoys wounded ; one
ang erously.
De d
tachment Ghoorkah Batt.-3 sepoys, I horse, killed ;
1 übcdar, 2 havildars, 1 naik, 9 sepoys, wounded;
Litut. Golding's horse shot under him; all the men se-
verely wounded.
Detachment Anderson's Horse-6 horses killed, I lieu-
tenant, 3 sepoys, 5 horses, wounded; Lieut. Le Geyt
apverely wounded ; one man dangerously.
Detachment Janbauzc-1 sepoy killed ; 2 sepoys wounded ;
one dangerously.

W. H. DENNIE, Brigadier.

Camp, Bameean, September 19, 1840.
ORDERS by Brigadier Dennie, C. B.
Brigadier Dennie has pride and pleasure in recording
his sense of the conduct of the troops employed against the
Wn
entich emY yesterday, and congratulating them on the success
rewarded their efforts.
The Brigadier begs to offer his particular thanks to
Lieutenant M'Kenzie, commanding the two pieces of
horse artillery, to whose admirable practice the result
of the day was mainly attributable. He requests that
Captains Younghusband and Codrington will receive for
themselves, and convey to the officers and men under their
orders, his sense of their merits. Lieutenant Golding,
with the flankers on the heights, deserve by their coolness
and steadiness, every commendation. Anderson's horse,
led by Lieutenant Le Geyt, severely wounded in the pur-
Nit, distinguished themselves.
The Janbauzes, headed by Captain Hart, proved them-
Eches faithful and forward. To Captain bhortreed the
Brigadier offers his best acknowledgements for the valuable
assistance he afforded, as also Lieutenant Broadfoot, of the
enginoers, who gave him his personal attendance.
Captain Arthur Conolly and Lieutenant Rattray, volun-
teers on the occasion, will be pleased to accept this mark
of their zealous exertions being fully appreciated.
From Sir Willoughby Cotton to the Secretary to the Go-
vernment of India.
Affghanistan, Head Quarters, Camp,
Cabool, Oct. 1, 1640.
have the honour to forward a despatch under
ume the 29th ultimo, from Major. General Sir Robert
B'l K• C
, e, K. C. B. containing a detail of the assault and cap-
lately on that day, of the fort and town of Tootunidurra,
/.4telY occupied by Ali Khan, a refractory chief of the
ixohistan of Cabool.
voptch ltle disposition of the troops and the mode of attack,
were conducted with the Major-General's useal
:kill and vigour, appear to have nullified, in a great Lima.
un', the formidable position of the enemy, and to hate
I roducyd the most brilliant results, with: a comparatively
tr;fiwg loss.
Le:i'he conduct of the troops engaged appears to have
!('n most satisfactory, and I beg to recommend the ser-
es of the Major-Gencral and the officers and men cm-
l';'td on this occasion, to the favourable notice of the
itlght lion. the Governor-General.
I much regret having to report the loss of an intelligent
'22g,4." "to-prising officer, Captain E. Conolly, of the 6th
.iroent of light cavalry, who fell in the advance of the
lin of
of attack. This officer was originally de-
ile.tiired on special duty in the political department, and ap-
haves. to cure volunteered his services in the attack. I
WILLOUGHBY COTTON, Major-General,
Commanding the troops in Afirgbanistan.

12th light infantry, 1 squadron 2d cavalry, 2 flank
~ianics37lll native infantry ; 3 nine pounders and one
Ptai
‘'' ? '
Abbott.—At Chorebar, under
nativ •
'n Fraser, 1 nter under Ca
squadronptain
2d cavalry, 2 companies 27th
Afghan Gantry, 350 Captain Anderson's cavalry, 2,000