Purchase of this book includes free trial access to www.million-books.com where you can read more than a million books for free. This is an OCR edition with typos. Excerpt from book: Chap. III..] 85 CHAP. HI. Defence of Jellalabacl. — Captain Broadfoot's Character and Exertions. — Restoration of the Fortifications. — Repulse of the Enemy on the 1st of December. — Assassination of the Envoy at Cabul. — Straits of the Garrison. — The fatal Capitulation. — Extermination of the Army. — Dr. Brydon's Escape. — Council of War at Jellalabad. — Negotiations with the Cabul Chiefs broken off. — Reinforcements from India. — Akbar Khan approaches Jellalabad. — The Earthquake of the 19th of February. — Destruction and Restoration of the Works General Pollock's Approach delayed. — Exhausted state of the Garrison. — Havelock advises an Attack on Akbar Khan. — Victory of the 7th of April. — Arrival of General Pollock. — Proclamation of Lord Ellen- borough. — Death of General Elphinstone. — Advance on Cabul. — Battle of Tezeen. — Cabul reoccupied. — Release of the Prisoners. — Victory at Istaliff under Havelock's direction.—Army breaks up and returns to India. Jellalabad was the winter residence of the rulers of Cabul, inferior in population and importance only to that city and Candahar. The valley in which it is situated is . , r, . . , , , Jellnlabad. about twenty-eight miles in length and three or four in breadth, fertilised by three streams, the largest of which is the Cabul river, and closed in by magnificent ranges of mountains. It is also well wooded, though arid and desert in the immediate vicinity of the town. The defences of the town, on the 13th of November, are thus described by Havelock, in the despatch he subsequently wrote for Sir Eobert Sale : " The walls of Jellalabad were in a state which might have justified despair as to the possibility of defending them. The enceinte was far too extensive for our small force, embracing a circumference o... --This text refers to an alternate Paperback edition.