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Burnes wrote to the Envoy he was a soldier, but he was also a 'political, and political employ seemed often in Afghanistan to deteriorate the attribute of soldierhood that there was no alternative for the force but to fall back on Cabul, and entreated Macnaghten to order immediate concentration of all the troops.
In about seven minutes more the agony was done; "English falling on with the bayonet, Highlanders with the claymore;" fierce pursuit, rout total: and Quebec and Canada as good as finished. Truly a bit of right soldierhood, this Wolfe.
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