1 A. D. 1818. RUNJEET TAKES PESHAWUR. 119
2 October, advanced to Attuk under Runjeet's personal
3 command, and the river being forded with some loss,
4 the fortress of Khyrabad, with Jugheera, and the territory
5 on the opposite bank, were reduced and occupied. Xo
6 immediate resistance was offered, Feeroz Khan, the
7 chief of the Khntuk tribe, made his submission, and
8 RuNJEET Singh having ascertained that no organized
9 force was in the field to oppose him, directed an advance
10 on Peshawur. The city was entered on the 20th Novem-
11 ber, Yah Mohummud Khan, the governor, retiring,
12 as the Sikhs advanced, into the mountains occupied by
13 the Yoosufzye tribes of Afghans.
14 RuNJEET Singh remained with his army three days
15 in Peshawur, and then returned, leaving as governor on
16 his behalf, Juhan Dad Khan, to whose treachery he
17 was indebted for the possession of Attuk, but whom he
18 had left unrewarded hitherto, and without the promised
19 Jageer. He furnished him, however, with neither troops,
20 nor money, to maintain the possession. Accordingly, the
21 Sikh army had no sooner crossed the Indus on its return,
22 than Yar Mohummud came down from the mountains
23 with the Yoosufzyes, and expelled the Sikh governor:
24 Juhan Dad Khan fled to the southward, and there
25 fell in with Shah Shooja, whom the state of affairs
26 in Kabool had tempted from Loodeeana again to try his
27 fortune. From him he received a free pardon, and join-
28 ed his standard. The curse of Fate was, however, on
29 every enterprize undertaken by this prince, whose
30 character, though amiable in many respects, and irre-
31 proachable in all, possessed not the energy to inspire awe,
32 and attach followers in troubled times, or to give confi-
33 dence to those disposed otherwise to favor his cause.