text:  The arrival of Akber Khan at Bameean the revolt of the Giljyes the previous flight of their chiefs from Cabul and the almost simultaneous attack of our posts in the Koohdaman (called by Lieutenant Eyre Kohistan ) on the 3d November--the attack of a party conducting prisoners from Candahar to Ghuznee--the immediate interruption of every line of communication with Cabul--and the selection of the season of the year the most favourable to the success of the insurrection with many other less important circumstances combine to force upon us the opinion that the intention to attack the Cabul force so soon as it should have become isolated by the approach of winter had been entertained and the plan of operations concerted for some considerable time before the insurrection broke out