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es for carrying on administration; misrepresented in House of Commons; congratulated by the Queen and the Viceroy; wintering at Kabul; attacked by the tribesmen on all sides; life saved by Mazr Ali; storming of the Takht-i-Shah; further attacks; concentrates his forces at Sherpur; strengthens his defences; arrests Daud Shah; defeats and disperses the tribesmen; reopens communication with India; issues a Proclamation; fortifies Sherpur; negotiations at Kabul; holds a durbar; hands over supreme command to Sir Donald Stewart; visits Jalalabad; hears news of Maiwand; telegram to Adjutant-General; appointed Commander of Kabul-Kandahar Field Force; preparations for the march; details of the Force; commissariat and transport; starts for Kandahar; order of marching; reaches Ghazni; reaches Kelat-i-Ghilzai; telegraphs progress to Government; food required daily for the force; down with fever; reports progress; letter from General Phayre; telegraphs to Simla; reaches Kandahar; demoralized condition of the garrison; encamps to the west of the city; reconnoitres the enemy's position; assumes command of the Army of Southern Afghanistan; defeats Ayub Khan; and captures his camp; telegraphs the news; difficulties about supplies; congratulated by the Queen and the Duke of Cambridge; made G.C.B.; appointed Commander-in-Chief of the Madras Army; proceeds to Quetta; parting with the troops; pleasant memories; receives autograph letter from the Queen; reception in England; appointed Governor of Natal and Commander of the Forces in South Africa; witnesses the manoeuvres of the German Army; offered the Quartermaster-Generalship; proceeds to Madras; visits the Andaman Islands; proceeds to Burma; declines the Quartermaster-Generalship; measures for improving the Madras Army; memories of Madras; visits Calcutta; meeting with Abdur Rahman at Rawal Pindi; returns to Madras; appointed Commander-in-Chief in India; brief visit to England; accompanies Lord Dufferin to Gwalior; proceeds to Delhi; Camp of Exercise at Delhi; accompanies Lord Dufferin to Burma; proceeds to the North-West Frontier; makes a tour of inspection; draws up a memorandum on frontier defence; Lady Roberts's Homes; sends reinforcements to Burma; lands at Rangoon; measures for pacificati
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