The victory was achieved by generalship, and with very little
loss, about 200 killed and wounded, although there was strenuous lighting in the villages. Regret is expressed that so few of the enemy were killed ; but they lost 1,000 men, and among Afghans the loss of men makes little difference to them. They are im- pressed by defeat, not by a slaughter which, as the soldiers were fighting Infidels, sends them straight to Heaven. If any one, however, wishes to know how hot the struggle must have been, and what would have been the consequences of defeat, we re- commend him to buy the Morning Advertiser of September 9th, and read the letter of its military correspondent, who shared in the flight after Burrows' defeat. We have not an idea who he is, but he has, perhaps accidentally, rivalled De Quincev. We cannot remember such a picture of the horror of defeat in the East, the men crowding in flight under the Afghan charges, the splendid rallies of the relics of British cavalry, the temporary madness of the armed crowd under the heat, the panic, and the in- cessant deaths in pain. The letter should be circulated every- where, just to teach Englishmen what kind of thing it is that in a country like Afghanistan good generalship saves us from.
