Category:Retreat from Kabul to Gandamak

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Retreating Army

Brigadier John Shelton
Advance Guard

  • 
44th Foot, later the Essex Regiment and now the Royal Anglian Regiment. 


  • 4th Irregular Horse
  • Skinner’s Horse
  • Horse Artillery (two 6 pounder guns)
  • Sappers & Miners Mountain Train
  • Envoy’s Escort

Main Body

  • 5th Native Infantry
  • 37th Native Infantry
 (in charge of treasure)
  • Anderson’s Horse
  • Shah’s 6th Regiment
  • Horse Artillery (two 6 pounder guns)

Rearguard

  • 54th Native Infantry
  • 5th Cavalry
  • Horse Artillery (two 6 pounder guns)

Total 4,500 fighting men and 12,000 followers