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After a winter in Jellalabad Shah Shuja, restored as Amir of Afghanistan, returned to Kabul in the spring of 1841 with Sir Wiliam Macnaghten as 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 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] Eyre's description in The Kabul Insurrection of 1841-42] Eyre's description</ref> Sir Willoughby Cotton was replace as military commander by [http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/William_George_Keith_Elphinstone General William Elphinstone]. Described as an elderly invalid, though in fact barely 60 years old, Elphinstone was unfitted to cope with the increasingly grave situation.