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A letter from headquarters with news of the [[Kabul Uprising]] requested Nott to send the three regiments to reinforce the capital. They were dispatched under Colonel Maclaren on 17 November. The [[Siege of Ghazni]] began on 20 November and communication north was cut. Colonel Maclaren turned back in the face of extreme weather<ref>Disputed by some sources. [http://books.google.com/books?id=5NANAAAAIAAJ&pg=PA395&dq=History+of+the+war+in+Afghanistan+On+the+8th+of+December+Maclaren's+brigade&cd=1#v=onepage&q&f=false ''History of the War in Afghanistan Vol II (1841-1842)'' by John William Kaye (1851) ] </ref> and reached Kandahar again on 8 December. Nott and his garrison remained bottled up until the end of the year. On 27 December two regiments of Shah Shujah's Afghan cavalry ([[Mutiny of the Janbaz|Janbaz]]) mutinied. Two days later Prince Sufder Jung, son of Shah Shujah, fled Kandahar and joined Atta Mahomed.
Major Rawlinson tried unsuccessfully to persuade General Nott to send an expedition after the Prince and Atta Mahomed who were at Dehli, forty miles from Kandahar. Nott judged it too great a risk in winter weather but, when the rebels approached within 12 miles of the city, he defeated them at the [[Battle of Killu-l-Shah]] on 12 January 1842.
== Garrison ==
