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On 14 January Sergeant-Major Lisson, 37th Native Infantry and five other Europeans were captured between Gundamak and Jalalabad. They joined the other hostages at Badiabad Fort on 12 February.
All those made over to Akbar Khan on the march were taken by stages to Badiabad Fort in the Lughman District which they reached on 17 January. They were joined at intervals by others who had been captured. During this time there was correspondence between Lady Sale and her husband who was besieged at Jalalabad.
At the approach of the Army of Retribution through the Khyber Pass the hostages were moved east on 11 April. They reached Tezeen on 19 April where General Elphinstone died four days later. They were then moved to a fort about 12 miles away where they stayed for a month. Moved again on 23 May they passed through the Khoord-Kabul pass and came to Noor Mohammed near Kabul where they remained for two months while various Afghan factions vied for control and there were negotiations with the advancing British. On 23 August the nine hostages from Kabul joined them.
General Pollock started to advance from Jalalabad on 20 August and this caused the hostages to be moved on 25 August further east to Bamian which was reached on 3 September. They were able to bribe/persuade their captors to assist their escape and they made their way west and south to the Kalu Pass where they were met by Sir Richmond Shakespear and 600 cavalry. They were finally safe when Sale's brigade reached Kowt e Ashrow and escorted them to Kabul. They had been hostages nearly nine months.
== Hostages ==
*Brigadier Robert Shelton
*Captain Hugh Johnson<br>
'''12 January'''
*Capt. Bygraveescaped the slaughter but was later captured.
'''13 January'''
*Major Griffiths, 44th Foot
*Mr Blewitt
*Capt. James Souter, 44th Foot
*Several privates, 44th Foot<br>
'''14 January'''
*Sgt-Maj. Lisson, 37th Native Infantry
