text:  After more than two years consumed in unavailing efforts to complete the reduction of the country our army of occupation was at last overwhelmed by the universal and irresistible outbreak of an indignant and fanatic population; and the restored monarch Shah-Shoojah ("whose popularity throughout Affghanistan had been proved to the Governor-general by the strong and unanimous testimony of the best authorities") perished as soon as he lost the protection of foreign bayonets by the hands of his outraged countrymen