GAPS29 Retreat from Kabul Set IX.

Retreat from Kabul Set IX. 'An Imposing Front'. 6 riders and standing horses . A miscellany of mounted officers in cloak-coats facing front, with drawn pistols, including a personality figure of Brigadier Thomas Anquetil.

A miscellany of mounted officers, facing front with drawn pistols & a personality figure of Brigadier Thomas Anquetil (see far left). 

Six riders and horses (£28.50).

Set is based on an incident during the retreat where General Elphinstone requested that the officers with the main body of the army to 'present a front' to cover Brigadier Shelton and the 44th Regiment rearguard into the ruins at Jagdallak. History does not relate whether they did so mounted or on foot, but certainly the greater number still had horses and so we have plumped for a mounted set. They represent a miscellany of officers of all regiments and corps with the army. The staff, cavalry, artillery and departmental officers wore blue cloaks, infantry officers were generally in grey.