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The Military Operations at Cabul is comprised primarily of the journal kept by Lieutenant Vincent Eyre (1811–81) before and during the time he was held prisoner in the First Anglo-Afghan War (1839–42). Appointed commissary of ordnance to the Kabul Field Force that marched into Afghanistan in the fall of 1839, Eyre arrived in Kabul in April 1840, bringing with him a large quantity of ordnance stores. Eyre begins his journal on November 2, 1841, the first day of the uprising by the Afghans against the Anglo-Indian force, in ...