Russian Threat and the Great Game

I. Tsarist thoughts of India

II. British responses

A. Sir Robert Wilson

B. Lieutenant Colonel George de Lacy Evans

III. Persian designs on Herat

IV. Russian designs on Persia

Afghanistan The Buffer State

I. Lord Auckland’s approach to Dost Muhammad Khan

II. Ranjit Singh and Peshawar

III. Auckland’s plan

A. Shah Shuja

IV. Siege of Herat

V. Simla Manifesto

The War

I. Army of the Indus

A. Bengal division under Sir Willoughby Cotton

B. Bombay division under Sir John Keane

II. Qandahar, Ghazni, Kabul

III. Dost Muhammad’s flight to Bukhara

A. Nasrollah Khan’s hospitality

B. Captain Connolly’s mission

IV. Sir William Macnaghten

V. Alexander Burnes

VI. Siege of Kabul

VII. Retreat of the Kabul Garrison, Jan 1842

VIII. Siege of Jalalabad

War of Retribution

I. Major General George Pollock

II. Fall of Kabul, Sep 1842

Epilogue

I. Lord Ellenborough’s quest for honour

II. Dispatch of Napier to Sind

III. Peccavi, March 1843

IV. Annexation of Sind, June 1843