[32]. For this he was strongly recommended for the Victoria Cross.
[33]. Missing.
[34]. One missing.
[35]. This was the view taken by Colonel Macgregor, Chief of the Staff.
[36]. The plan here suggested was afterwards carried out.
[37]. I may here state that both these expeditions were afterwards carried out, and their object attained.
[38]. I have not gone at length into the question of General Massy’s recall, as there were too many points involved for the case to be treated in a work of this kind, which is only a diary of the war. I may state, however, that General Massy was given a brigade command in India, which he still retains.
[39]. At Abdur Rahman’s request all the forts, &c., were left intact when Sir Donald Stewart left Cabul in August.
[40]. This was the policy Lord Lytton intended to carry out.
[41]. The Afghans cannot, of course, be expected to understand the principle of party-government at home; the defeat of the Conservative party and the recall of Lord Lytton put an end to such ideas as the retention of Candahar and the maintenance of the scientific frontier. Our change of policy was misunderstood generally in Afghanistan, where, to this day, it is believed we were too weak to carry out our original plans.