One pathan is the whole of army!? The Army of the Indus, comprising 20,000 soldiers and twice that number of camp followers , had set off in the spring of 1839 to fight in the First Afghan War. It was January 13, 1842, and the 30-year- old Scot was all that remained of the British force that had invaded Afghanistan three years earlier. When a rescue party reached him, they found a shadow of a man, his head sliced open, his tattered uniform heavily bloodstained. He seemed more dead than alive but, when asked ‘Where is the Army ?’, Assistant Surgeon William Brydon managed to reply: ‘I am the Army .
Posted on: Mon, 16 Sep 2013 09:34:35 +0000