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== Summary ==
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</ref>
== Recommended Reading ==
''"Lady Sale"'' by P MacRory 1958 ISBN 0208008306<br>
[http://www.archive.org/stream/kabulinsurrecti00eyregoog#page/n6/mode/2up ''The Kabul Insurrection of 1841-42''] by Maj-Gen Sir Vincent Eyre 1879 (archive.org)
==Refernces==
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[[Category:1st Afghan War| Kabul Uprising]]
[[Category:Kabul Uprising|Kabul Uprising]]
[[Category:Battles|Kabul Uprising]]
