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2 AraSHDix.] SECOND RISING OF THE 6HILJISS. JQS
3 gataa, flMde t ftnlMt dMijge* on- AeDoowuseliMi Uie divuioil thab
4 o^poied to their column gave way, and the victory seemed t» be decided
5 in favour of the Ghiljies, till the unbroken part of the Dooraunees wheeling
6 in on the flanks of the enemv, checked their progress, and Ibrced them to
7 attend to their own satety. The (Wijliii-s tlioutrh broken by this attack,
8 were not dispersed* but retreated in a body to Killaee Zirreen, a tort ot
9 their own in the biDs, about ttzmflMfhim the field of bali^ TheDoomii-
10 nees ftOowed them ftr pvt of the way, bat not beiaif able to make any ioh
11 -pnaBcia on them» they gave up the pvrtnit.
12 The Ohiljtet lecehred MinfincenMntB in the night ; and early next morn-
13 ing they quitted XUbee Zknea, and marched in the direction of Caubul,
14 leaving the Dooraaneefi at some distance on their left. They reached Killaee
15 Shaiihet', within a few miles of Caubul, in the course of the evening, while
16 the Dooraunees, having no intelligence, remained halted the whole of that
17 day. Next morning they learned the movements of the Ghiljies* and
18 mardied in great hatte and alann tQ. -Kiyaee Amecn Ool MboU^ between
19 due cneniT'a anny and the d^.
20 The Ghiljies, who had hithertO'behaved with some regularitjTt now broke
21 out into rapine and violence : they plundered the villages in their neighbour-
22 hood during the night, in contempt of Abdooreheem'? endeavours to restrain
23 them ; and in the morning tliey marched out to attack tlie Dooraunees, with-
24 out orders, and ap])arei)tly without concert. They were entirely defeated
25 with great slaughter ; three tbowand men are aaad to have been kiUed m the
26 biMie and pnnmt, and the rest dispened to their own diatricts. The Dooi-
27 mmoM tb«i retomed to Caiibn], where they erected a pynvnid of the heeda
28 of the enemy that had ftHen in the battle.
29 Tlie setting in of the winter prevented any further hostilities at that time ;
30 but, early in the spnng of 1802, the Ghiljies rose as suddenly as before, and
31 with more arrangenient : almost the wliole of the Gliiljie clans were now
32 engaged. Their iurce is Haid to liave amuuuted tu lilty tliousand men.
33 It wee detcmined that a body under Abdooreheem should attack Caubul
34 from the south, and an equal body, under FUtteh Khaun Bahnkmsye* from
35 the east} while aforce of ten thousand Ghi^ies should keep the Dodraonees
36 employted within tiieir own boundaries. To each of these divisions a Doo-
37 raunee army was opposed, and three -aetioiia took plao^ all of which tscmi*
38 nated in the entire success of the Dooraunees.
39 It is univL J salJy iiaid (and the existence of the report, whetiier accurate or
40 not, sliews the state of the country at the time), that these three battles, the
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