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Amend hostages, add iography
On 11 January General Elphinstone, Brigadier Shelton and Captain Johnson were called to a conference by Akbar Khan and detained as hostages
On 13 January Major Griffiths and Mr Blewitt were detained when they tried to negotiate a truce. Captain James Souter and several private were captured after the last stand of the 44th Regiment.
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.
*General William Elphinstone- died of dysentery at Tezin 23 April 1842
*Brigadier Robert Shelton
*Captain Hugh Johnson<br>'''13 January'''*Major Griffiths, 44th Foot*Mr Blewitt*Capt. James Souter, 44th Foot*Several privates, 44th Foot
== Biographies ==
Entries in the Dictionary of Indian Biography 1906:<br>
[http://www.archive.org/stream/dictionaryofindi00buckuoft#page/8/mode/1up James Airey (1812-1898)]<br>
[http://www.archive.org/stream/dictionaryofindi00buckuoft#page/8/mode/2up/search/Akbar Mahommed Akbar Khan (1813?-1849)]<br>
[http://www.archive.org/stream/dictionaryofindi00buckuoft#page/58/mode/2up William Brydon (1811-1873)]<br>
[http://www.archive.org/stream/dictionaryofindi00buckuoft#page/138/mode/1up William Elphinstone (1782-1842)]<br>
[http://www.archive.org/stream/dictionaryofindi00buckuoft#page/140/mode/2up/search/Eyre Vincent Eyre (1811-1881)]<br>
