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On 19 April Lord Ellenborough, who had succeeded Lord Auckland as Governor-General, wrote to Nott ordering him to withdraw from Kandahar to Sind via Quetta. Nott sent to Quetta for baggage animals to transport the army and on 19 May Wymer was dispatched to relieve [[Siege of Khelat-i-Ghilzai|Khelat-i-Ghilzie]] so that the garrison could withdraw. By the time of his arrival, however, the besieging force had been defeated by Capt. Craigie.
On 22 July a further letter arrived from the Governor-General dated 4 July giving Nott the option to withdraw either north or south. He determined to go north to meet [[George Pollock|General Pollock ]] in Kabul while Maj-Gen England was to take a smaller part of the force to Quetta. The occupying army moved out of the city on 7 August and the two contingents set out on 9 August 1842.
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