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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