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== Summary ==

After a winter in [[Jalalabad]] [http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Shuja_Shah_Durrani Shah Shuja], restored as Amir of [[Afghanistan]], returned to [[Kabul]] in the spring of 1841 with [http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/William_Hay_Macnaghten Sir William Macnaghten] the British Envoy and Minister at the Afghan Court. A reduced force of British and Indian troops moved out of the Bala Hissar fortress into a cantonment where their families joined them. The cantonment at Sherpur was poorly located and difficult to defend.<ref>[http://books.google.co.uk/books?id=AWREAAAAIAAJ&q=The+Kabul+insurrection+of+1841-42+Shah+Lieutenant+Warburton+cantonment+surrounding+country&dq=The+Kabul+insurrection+of+1841-42+Shah+Lieutenant+Warburton+cantonment+surrounding+country&cd=1 The Kabul Insurrection of 1841-42] Eyre's description</ref> [http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Willoughby_Cotton Sir Willoughby Cotton] was replaced as military commander by [http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/William_George_Keith_Elphinstone William Elphinstone]. Described as an elderly invalid,<ref>[http://www.archive.org/stream/kabulinsurrecti00eyregoog#page/n106/mode/2up/search/Elphinstone ibid]</ref> though in fact barely 60 years old, Elphinstone was unfitted to cope with the increasingly grave situation.