Seven Fighting in Cabul.
General Roberts taken up fresh
Quarters.
Calcutta, December loth.
There was continuous fighting oa the fourteenth confirming fully thd statement that the Afghans were numerically superior and made a desperate attack on the heights south of the position occupied by the British troops.
On the thirteenth General Roberts consequently decided to abandon the heights, concentrating on the cantonments on the north of Cabul. Reinforcements. Orders were given to Generals Gough and Arbuthnot to bring up reinforcements from Gandamak snd Jellallabad.
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Thames Star, Volume X, Issue 3428, 17 December 1879, Page 2
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84Seven Fighting in Cabul. Thames Star, Volume X, Issue 3428, 17 December 1879, Page 2
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