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== Synopsis == | == Synopsis == | ||
'''General Nott''' left [[Quetta]] on 26 October 1839 to take command at [[Kandahar]]. '''General Willshire''', returning across country from Kabul via [[Ghazni]], reached [[Quetta]] on 31 October. On orders from '''Sir John Keane''' he immediately left for [[Kalat]] which was stormed and the ruler '''Mir Mehrab Khan''' killed. | '''General Nott''' left [[Quetta]] on 26 October 1839 to take command at [[Kandahar]]. '''General Willshire''', returning across country from Kabul via [[Ghazni]], reached [[Quetta]] on 31 October. On orders from '''[[John Keane|Sir John Keane]] ''' he immediately left for [[Kalat]] which was stormed and the ruler '''Mir Mehrab Khan''' killed. | ||
'''Captain Bean''', the political officer of Shawl Province, was charged with pacifying the disaffected tribes but found it a difficult task. Quetta was attacked, Kahan besieged and Kalat lost to the son of Mehrab Khan, '''Mir Mahomed Nusseer Khan'''. Nusseer Khan sought to drive the British from the country they occupied between Shikarpore and Quetta but was defeated at Dadur. General Nott returned from Kandahar and re-occupied Kalat on 3 November 1840 after the garrison had fled. Nott appointed '''Colonel Lewis Stacy''' as political officer at Kalat before returning to Kandahar. | '''Captain Bean''', the political officer of Shawl Province, was charged with pacifying the disaffected tribes but found it a difficult task. Quetta was attacked, Kahan besieged and Kalat lost to the son of Mehrab Khan, '''Mir Mahomed Nusseer Khan'''. Nusseer Khan sought to drive the British from the country they occupied between Shikarpore and Quetta but was defeated at Dadur. General Nott returned from Kandahar and re-occupied Kalat on 3 November 1840 after the garrison had fled. Nott appointed '''Colonel Lewis Stacy''' as political officer at Kalat before returning to Kandahar. | ||