De-Feated Poem by Sadiqullah Khan

This painting, Remnants of an Army (by Lady Elizabeth Butler) , shows the wounded and half-dead Dr. William Brydon, an assistant surgeon, arriving at the gates of Jellalabad (Jalalabad) . Brydon was thought to be the sole survivor of a 16,000 strong British expeditionary force during a 90 mile retreat from Kabul over snow-covered mountain passes to Jellalabad during the First Afghan War (1839-1842) . This retreat was one of the bloodiest defeats in British colonial history. @ Encyclopedia Afghanistan