THE RECENT FIGHTING NEAR CABUL.

Nelson Evening Mail, Volume XV, Issue 154, 29 June 1880, Page 2

THE RECENT FIGHTING NEAR CABUL.

The following telegram appears in the Indian Pioneer Mail of April 29:— General Stewart's force occupied the city this morning. On the 19 th a general action took place between the British troops and an armed body of Ghilzais, numbering 15,000 horse and foot who were drawn up in a strong position on some low hills to the left of the road, twenty- miles south of Ghazni. The action lasted just one hour, during which the Ghazis made the most determined charge right up to the line of our troops, coming on in bodies of two or three thousand at a time, and endeavoring to take the guns. Our troops behaved admirably, and at 10 a.m. the enemy were in full retreat, having lost over one thousand killed, whose bodies were counted pn the , ground, and having removed many wounded,

Our casualitiea amounted to 143; seventeen I killed and 126 wounded; among the latter j were the following officers :-- Lieutenant Young, 19th Bengal Lancers, severely; Colonel Lawson, 59th Regiment ; Colonel Yorke, 15th Bengal Lancers ; Lieutenant Watson, 59th Regiment; and Lieutenant Stewart, 2nd Punjab Cavalry, slightly; no officers were killed. All tbe wounded are doing well. The cavalry regiments, especially the 2nd Punjab Cavalry, made several brilliant charges and killed many men. Lieutenant Young's horse bolted with him, when the regiment was ordered to charge right into the middle of the Ghazis. After the enemy had retreated our European dead were buried on the ground by the chaplain Mr Warnf ord.

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