hazardarakht

Updated: May 20, 2025

But for their excellent services on this occasion, it might probably have been impossible to carry out the programme of our march. In the same Gazette was published another despatch from Sir F. Roberts, dated Cabul, 20th October, in which he says: 'Colour-Sergeant H. Macdonald, a non-commissioned officer, whose excellent and skilful management of a small detachment when opposed to immensely superior numbers in the Hazardarakht defile was mentioned in my despatch of the 16th instant, here again distinguished himself. This refers to his conduct at Charasiab, at the close of which action our brave countryman was sent for by Roberts, who publicly complimented and thanked him personally for 'the ability and intelligence with which he handled the party under his command' at the battle.

Bennet Burleigh - Khartoum Campaign, 1898: or the Re-Conquest of the Soudan