1 422 SIR C. WADE'S ORDER.
2 tened to return to the place after an absence of
3 several years, proved that his rule was not
4 altogether popular.*
5 7th—Camp, Dhaka. The force with the
6 Shah Zada having now forced’ the Pass, Sir
7 Claude Wade expressed his thanks and ac-
8 knowledgments to every European and native
9 officer commanding the Sikh as well as the
10 Shah Zada’s levies, and_ the detachment of the
11 British troops, for the able and zealous ser-
12 vices rendered by them individually in the
13 operations which had led to the attainment of
14 our object after a tedious detention at Peshawr.
15 A donation of five thousand rupees, lately
16 * The measure and choice of Sir Claude Wade in de-
17 throning one chief of suspicious character and elevating
18 another, appeared judicious in the time of the disasters
19 in 1841-2; for it was Tura Baz Khan who stood by the
20 British when all the Afghan chiefs had deserted them.
21 It was the new chief of Lalpura who became the medium
22 of communication between our heroic garrison of Jalalabad
23 and the Peshawr authorities; and, above al], it was he who
24 escorted the supplies of ammunition, grain, and money to
25 them when they were in great need. (Mohan Lal’s Life
26 of Dost Mahomed Khan, p. 272.) On the evacuation of
27 Afghanistan he was abandoned to his fate.