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{{Battlemap|war=The March from Peshawar to Kabul|link=http://maps.google.co.uk/maps/ms?hl=en&ie=UTF8&msa=0&msid=101241150585833319689.00046bd915f672415c6e5&t=p&z=9}}
===== [http://www.oxforddnb.com/index/101022478/ Maj Gen George Pollock’s] March from Peshawar to Kabul in the [[1st Afghan War]] =====
== The Army of Retribution ==
'''Left Column (to crown the heights)'''<br>
*Four Coys [[26th Bengal Native Infantry]]
*200 Jezailchees under Maj Huish, 26th NI
*Seven Coys [[53rd Regiment of Bengal Native Infantry |53rd Native Infantry]] under Maj Hoggan*Three Coys [[60th Regiment of Bengal Native Infantry|60th Native Infantry ]] under Capt Napleton
*Four & a half Coys [[64th Bengal Native Infantry]] under Col Moseley
*One & a half Coys HM [[9th Regiment of Foot]] under Col Moseley
*Grenadier Coy 9th Queen’s Regiment
*One Coy [[26th Bengal Native Infantry]]
*Three Coys [[30th Regiment of Bengal Native Infantry|30th Native Infantry]]*Two Coys [[4th Regiment of Rajput Infantry|33rd Native Infantry ]] under Maj Barnewell, 9th<br>
''Main Body''<br>
*Mountain Train 2 guns
*Foot Artillery 3 guns
*Two Squadrons [[3rd (Prince of Wales') Dragoon Guards|3rd Dragoons]]
*Treasure & ammunition on camels
*One Squadron 1st Native Cavalry
*Two Coys [[53rd Regiment of Bengal Native Infantry|53rd Native Infantry]]
*Commissariat stores
*One Squadron [[1st Bengal Light Cavalry|1st Native Cavalry]]
*One Ressalah irregular Horse
*Baggage & camp followers
*Ammunition
*Litters & camel-panniers for the sick
*One Squadron [[1st Bengal Light Cavalry|1st Native Cavalry]]
''Rear Guard''<br>
*Foot Artillery 3 guns
*[[10th Bengal Light Cavalry|10th Light Cavalry]]
*Two Ressalahs Irregular Horse
*Two Squadrons [[3rd (Prince of Wales') Dragoon Guards|3rd Dragoons]]
*Horse Artillery 2 guns
*Three Coys [[60th Regiment of Bengal Native Infantry|60th Native Infantry]]
*One Coy HM [[9th Regiment of Foot]]<br>
'''Right Column (to crown the heights)'''
*Two Coys HM [[9th Regiment of Foot]]*Four Coys [[26th Native Infantry]]
*400 Jezailchees under Co Taylor, 9th Foot
*Seven Coys [[30th Regiment of Bengal Native Infantry |30th Native Infantry]] under Maj Payne*Three Coys [[60th Regiment of Bengal Native Infantry|60th Native Infantry ]] under Capt Riddle*Four Coys [[64th Bengal Native Infantry ]] under Maj Anderson
*Details of Broadfoot’s Sappers
*One & a half Coys HM [[9th Regiment of Foot ]] under Maj Davis
*Torabaz Khan’s auxiliaries
