Lieutenant-Colonel Alexander Lindsay commanded the Artillery, Colonel AEneas Perkins was Commanding Royal Engineer.  Colonel Hugh Gough commanded the Cavalry, Brigadier-Generals Cobbe (17th Foot) and Thelwall (21st Punjab Infantry) the two Infantry brigades.  Major W. Galbraith (85th Foot) was Assistant-Adjutant-General; Major H. Collett, Assistant, and Captains ‘Dick’ Kennedy and F. Carr, Deputy-Assistant-Quartermasters-General.  Captains G. de C. Morton and A. Scott, V.C., Brigade-Majors.  Captain A. Badcock, Chief Commissariat officer; Captain J. Colquhoun, R.A., Commissary of Ordnance; Major Moriarty, Captain Goad, and Lieutenant F. Maisey, Transport officers; Captain A. Wynne (51st Foot), Superintendent of Field Telegraphs; Captain R. Woodthorpe, R.E., Superintendent of Surveys; Deputy-Surgeon-General F. Allen, Principal Medical officer; Rev. J. W. Adams, Chaplain.

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APPENDIX IV.

(Referred to in Chapter XLIX, Footnote 15.)

Translation of a letter from MAJOR-GENERAL SIR FREDERICK ROBERTS to His Highness THE AMIR OF KABUL.

    ALIKHEL, 18th September, 1879.

(After the usual compliments.) Your Highness’s letter of the 28th Ramazan, with the enclosures from Herat and Turkestan, reached me last night.  I have acquainted myself with the contents.  I am glad to find your Highness is in good health, but sorry to hear of the unfortunate disturbances in your Highness’s dominions.  Your Highness’s letter, in original, has been sent with enclosures to His Excellency the Viceroy.  I have already informed your Highness of the wishes of His Excellency the Viceroy, and the reasons for the movements of the British troops, and I have requested your Highness to send a confidential representative to my camp.  I am awaiting a reply to that letter, and the arrival of your Highness’s confidential representative.

In the meantime I have sent a Proclamation to the tribes, and letters to some of the Logar maliks, your Highness’s subjects, to assure those not concerned in the hateful massacre, and asking them for assistance in carriage and supplies on payment.  As it appears to me proper I should inform your Highness of what I have done, I enclose copies of the Proclamation to the tribes and of my letter to the Logar maliks, and hope that your Highness may also issue necessary orders for the furtherance of our plans.  Rest assured of the support of the Government of India.

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APPENDIX V.

(Referred to in Chapter XLIV, Note *.)

Notes of an interview between GENERAL SIR FREDERICK ROBERTS and the AMIR’S AGENTS, MUSTAUFI HABIBULLA KHAN and WAZIR SHAH MAHOMED KHAN.  Dated ALIKHEL, 23rd September, 1879.

After compliments, General Roberts intimated to the Agents that at their desire he had granted them a second interview.  He now requested them to be good enough to speak freely all that they wished him to know.