text:  In the city and neighbouring villages were found not fewer than 327 sepoys of the former garrison which had been massacred to a man (according to report) immediately after the surrender; but notwithstanding this evidence of the moderation with which the Affghans had used their triumph General Nott (in obedience as is said to the _positive tenor of his instructions_ ) "directed the city of Ghazni with the citadel and the whole of its works to be destroyed;" and this order appears from the engineer's report to have been rigorously carried into effect