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-120- their country, for the first time assembled at the house of Abdullah Khan Achakzai. There they laid down the foundation of the release of their country from cruel hands which were squeezing out the very life blood of the nation. On the morning of second november 1841. A.D. when the sun had hardly arisen, four of these lovers of their country named Abdullah Khan Achakzai, Aminullah Khan Logari, Sikandar Khan and Abdus Salam Khan called upon the people around them and marched on the garden and the house of Alexander Burnes. Burne wanteds to pacify them by sending out to them a messenger on his behalf, but Sikandar Khan wanted to cut Burnes head off, so that not a single word should come out of the tyrant's mouth. Burnes came on the roof of his house and wished to bribe the mob with money, but as that could not satisfy the people impassioned by the national urge, Burnes ordered that the people should be fired up on. Firing from both sides caused causualties amongst the contestants. One of the Englishmen who fell on that occasion was a Captain Broad Foot after him fell Burnes brother named Charles Burnes. The Afghans thereafter entered Burnes house, set his house alight and cut Burnes into pieces. The fire of the house was seen from Bala Hisar by Shah shuja, Mcnaughton and Elphinstone Not only was it visible from the Balahisar but it could also be seen from Siah Sung and Shairpore; and none were able to put it out. Burnes had a great expectation of help from Bala Hi sar. Captain Campbell did, in effect start out to help with a company of troop, but the people hindered their progress with the result that all the arms and the ammunition of the rescue party fell into the hands of the Afghan nationalists. when the sun was setting upon the hights Bala Hi sar, and the English looked on anxiously from the eminence of Balahi sar, upon a city whose heart was captured by the people of the country. The wrath of Bala Hisar and of Shairpore was of course, at its highest. The manifestation of this wrath and anxiety were complementary to each other, and the result of this mani festation was that compelled the foreigners to desert the country of the Afghans along with those who loved the foreigners more than their own country.