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OUTRAM, Captain James.

Rough Notes of the Campaign in Sinde and Afghanistan,

in 1838-39: being extracts from a personal journal kept while on the staff of the army of the Indus.

Stock Code
97674
London, Richardson, 1840
£495

Originally published in a small Bombay edition. A thrilling account of the capture of Ghazni; the pursuit over rough terrain of Dost Mohammed Khan with 100 British Indian cavalry and 2000 Afghan cavalry under Haji Khan who blocked Outram's pursuit and was subsequently tried for treason; the pacification of disaffected tribes between Kabul and Kandahar; and the successful siege of Kalat.

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First U.K. edition. 8vo, [x], 262pp., 2 folding lithographed maps (one with splits to folds), contemporary burgundy half morocco gilt,

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