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-124- The arrival of the winter season, and the settling of the cold weather and the fall of snow in Kabul and upon the surrounding hills, bring to minds those scenes of history which cannot be effaced from the memories of the people. It is this that induces one to pen an article in this series about an event which happened on 6th. January 1842.A.D. (22nd. Zulqadah 1257.A.H.) in the city of Kabul, and that event is none other than the evacuation of the capital city of Kabul by the English. On 7th August 1839 A.D. when a certain degree of agitation and manifestation of dis-satisafaction was apparent among the people of Kabul, headed by the trumpet call and the military band , two English officers- Mcnaughton and Sir John Kean- accompanied by Shah Shuja went round the streets of the city proclaiming the ascending upon the throne of Shahshuja at Kabul. This was an event whic happened twentytwo years afrer that diseredited king had been exiled from Afghanistan. This was a crowning of this puppet only in name,for in actual fact the real rulers of the country were, of course, the English. The 7th. of August was the Dark Day for this country, when the foreign troops of an aggressor entering the mountain kingdom of Afghanistan, and repulsing our defending forces from the Indus basin and Bluchistan to Kandahar and Grishk, Muqar, Ghazni and Arghandab as the helpers of Shahshuja; occupied our country. Thousand of innocent person had been killed before they reached Kabul and established their military base at Shairpore. After that date upto 6th. January 1842. A. D.-for two and a half years eve-nts which had not been hidden from the eyes of the Afghan people, happened and the leaders of the people did not desist in striving to release their nation from the bondage of the aggressors, so that Burness and Mcnaughton, were both sacrificed on their altar of aggression, and their survivors had to sign the avacuation documents on the 6th. of January 1842. A. D. and to vacate Shairpore. As it was the beginning of the winter Season when snow lay so deep that even men of great age had not seen the like of it for