Journal of the Disasters in Affghanistan, 1841}}}2 [Paperback]

Lady Sale became an instant heroine when this journal of her captivity in Afghanistan was published in 1843.Lady Sale (n?e Florentia Wynch, 17901853) became an instant heroine when this account of her captivity in Afghanistan in 18412 was published in 1843. Her diary, carried in a cloth bag at her waist, was published almost unedited, and is an extraordinary record of her ordeal.Lady Sale (n?e Florentia Wynch, 17901853) became an instant heroine when this account of her captivity in Afghanistan in 18412 was published in 1843. Her diary, carried in a cloth bag at her waist, was published almost unedited, and is an extraordinary record of her ordeal.Lady Sale (n?e Florentia Wynch, 17901853) became an instant heroine when her journal of the disastrous events in Afghanistan in 18412 was published in 1843. The wife of Sir Robert Sale, second-in-command of the British forces, she was taken hostage, along with her daughter and baby grand-daughter, after the massacre of over 4,500 British troops at Kabul, while her husband commanded a besieged garrison at Jalalabad. The small group of hostages was moved from place to place, with only the clothes they stood up in, to evade attempts at rescue over a period of nine months. Eventually, they were able to bribe a tribal leader to release them, and they met up with a British rescue party just before Afghani pursuers overtook them. Lady Sale's diary, carried in a cloth bag at her waist, was published almost unedited, and is an extraordinary account of her ordeal.Vocabulary; Introduction; Part I. Cabul: 1. The Zoormut expedition; 2. Revolt of T?zeen and Bhoodkhak; 3. Departure of Gen. Sale's brigade from Cabul; 4. Losses at the Khood Cabul pass; 5. Terms made with the chiefs; 6. Outbreak in Cabul; 7. Captain Johnson's treasury plundered; 8. Supineness of the British chiefs; 9. Capt. Campbell's regiment repulsed; 10. State of the cantonments; 11. Return of the 37th N.I.; 12. Attack on the Commissariat fort; 13. Loss of Mackenzil‹