The morning news. [volume] (Savannah, Ga.) 1887-1900, 1897-10-10
s. L. FRADY, Asheville, N. G.

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Afghan guerriIlas. Although the most
ample proofs had been given of the faith
lessness of the native chiefs, the officers
again opened negotiations. with them; the
| women and severa. of the leading Off
| GERS, including the general, were given or
surrendered themselves as hostages but
| still the firing went on, and by the time
| the fugitVes had reached the entrance of
| the first pass through the mountains they
had neither leaders, provisions nor am
munition, and a large number of the sol
diers were even without guns.
Khyber pass is mere canyon In the
mountains the road winding along the
| bank of the river, and at almost every
point for five miles is commanded on both
sides by overhanging precipices. No army
could force it's way through the detile, if
the crags overhead were occupied by a
hostile force. This terrible defile, how
ever, was not the scene of the annihila-
ton of the army. At the western entrance
to the, pass stands the city of Jelalabad,
which at that time was held by a strong
English force and this town was the OBJ
jective point of the army. Before reaching
it, however, there were two passes to be
traVersed, each almost as difficult as the
Khyber defile. The first was the koord
Cabool Pass, and here most of the army
persisted. Crowded into a narrow road,
commanded by the nights and precipices
above, the men were shot down by hun
dreds They could offer little effective re-
sistance to the fire by the enemy, and none
at all TO the masses of stone and snow that
were loosened on the mountain sides above
for the purpose of overwhelming the fug-
itives. A few survivors, in all less than two
hundred European soldiers and about five
hundred Sepoys, struggled through, but at
the entrance of the Jugduluk pass they
found a strong improvised foytifcation of
their arrival, and here they all died. OF
the host of 5000, which two days before
had marched out of Cabool, only one white
man escaped, q surgeon named BrysOn,
who day or two after the massacre,
staggered into Jellalabad, half delirious
form suffering and told the tale of an
army's destruction.
There were many heroic deeds done by
those who fell. and even the Afghan as
sassins told with admiration of the valor
of some of the British officers and Indian
troops. One captain, cut off from his
command, placed his back against great
rock, and with musket and bayonet held
dozen enemies at bay. At last, in strik-
ing a violent blow, he broke off the bayo-
net. There was a rush but he wrested
a sword from the foremost foe, and with 1t
killed five men ere he was finally disabled
by a blow on the back of the head. Three
Sepoys stood together, and, though with
out ammunition, killed seven men with
their bayonets ere they were finally cut
down. A lieutenant, separated from the
main body, carved a lane through a solid
phalanx of enemies and rejOined his COM
rades. A Sepoy, himself wounded, car
ried a comrade in worse plight clear over
the Koord Cabool pass, only to perish
with him a little further on. But bravery
without proper leadership is of little eff
cheney in a conflict of such character,
and the individual cases did not inspire
the multitude with courage. The panic
stricken mob was driven to a frenzy of
fright by the sight of the heads of their
comrades carried on spears and poles by
the AfghanS, or thrown down among the
survivors from some convenient crag. Yet
these men were not towards. They
were simply soldiers at a disadvantage,
without leaders, and confronted by an
overwhelming number of savage enemies.
Such a situation is enough to make the
most daring apprehensive, seeing that the
case is hopeless.
Vengeance for the massacre was swift.
Jelallabad was still held by the English,
and when summoned to surrender, Gen.
Sale, the officer in command, refused and
made a spirited defense, as also did the
English garrison at Candahar The In
dian government, as soon as the news of
the disaster arrived, concentrated troops
in the northwest, and by the end of March
Of the same year Gen. Pollock was on his
way through the Khyber pass Covering
his advance with swarm of shaTpshoot-
ers and Smelling every suspicious spot on
the mountain sides, he drove out the AZ
crba nd mai n
Jela.labad. Ere his arrival, however, the
garrison had effected its own deliverance
by a spirited sortte, routing and dispers-
ing the Alghans in several battles, en-
camped under the walls of Cabool, occu-
plying the cantonments from which the I'M
| fortunates nine months before had march,
ed to their death. Larges parties of pris-
| oners, under strong guard, were set to
work burying the dead in Koord Cabool
| pass, and. according to the returns made,
inferred over 1900 bodies of men, women
| and children for the murderous Afghans
made no distinction.
Many chiefs were captUred some were
shot, others were hung; the bazaar of Ca
bool was burned the city was piaged by
the soldiery, and most of it's male popula-
ton persisted at the hands of the Infatuated
| British and Sepoys. The prisoners, after
| performing the service already stated,
were generally allowed to depart If they
! had taken no hand in the massacre, hut
! such as had were hanged. 1t is considered
! probable that the number of Aghans kill
ed in the campaign and executed after
wards fully equaled that of the English
and Sepoys who persisted. No effort at
| permanent occupation was made. After
| this vengeful blow the English left the
country to it's native rulers and anarchy.
| Twice since have British armies traversed
the Khyber and the other two passes TO
ayenge insults to English ENJOYS or re-
| press Afghan insolence, and the Khyber Is
| now a part of the stragetic frontier of In
| dia but all the subsequent successes have
NOT effaced the memory of 1.-THE Terrible
| March from Cabool."
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