text:  In one of the first statements of his views Lord Ellenborough had significantly said (15th March 1842:)-- "We are fully sensible of the advantages which would be derived from the re-occupation of Cabul the scene of our great disaster and of so much crime even for week--of the means which it might afford of recovering the prisoners of the gratification which it would give to the army and of the effect which it would have upon our enemies