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Excerpt from Recollections of Four Years' Service in the East With H. M. Fortieth Regiment: Comprising an Account of the Taking of Kuracher in Lower Scinde, in 1839; Operations in Upper Scinde in 1840 and 1841; And the Operations of the Candahar Division of "the Avenging Army of Afghanistan" In 1841 and 1842; Under Major-General Sir W. Nott, G
Should such a result be effected, the Author will feel that although his labours have been but slight they will not have been in vain.
During the period of which he attempts to treat, the Author kept a journal, in which he carefully recorded, as they occurred, all incidents worthy of note. This journal was carried off with his baggage by the enemy in the Khyber Pass, when the cam paign in Afghanistan might almost be said to have closed and he was thus deprived of the best means of refreshing his memory. Finding, however, on his return home, that many of his letters written in India and Afghanistan had been preserved, he amused himself by devoting his leisure hours to the compilation of the following narrative, the perusal Of those letters having suggested the possibility of his not altogether failing in an attempt at authorship.
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