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Amend summary, field force
== Synopsis ==
Colonel Monteath with the whole force except the 13th Foot left Kabul on 9 October and camped at Bootkak. That night they were attacked and 35 sepoys killed. General Sale with the 13th Foot left Kabul on 11 October and joined the camp at Bootkak. on 12 October the combined brigade forced the Khoord-Kabul pass to camp on the other side. The 13th Foot then returned to Bootkakwhere they were joined over the next few days by reinforcements from Kabul and the political agent Captain Macgregor.
== Field Force ==
'''Advance contingent'''
* [[35th Regiment of Bengal Native Infantry|35th Bengal Native Infantry]] under Col Monteath
*One Coy of [[13th Regiment of Foot]]
* One squadron 5th Cavalry under Capt Oldfield
*Two guns of Capt Abbott's Battery under Lieut Dawes
'''Reinforcements'''
*Two guns European Horse Artillery under Lieut Walker
*37th Native Infantry under Major Griffiths
*Captain Backhouse's mountain train
*300 additional Sappers
*Captain Abbott's battery
*100 Anderson's Irregular Horse
== Spelling Variants ==
