text:  The advance of the army was constantly opposed by detached bodies of the enemy and several spirited skirmishes took place:--till on the 13th of September the main Affghan force to the number of 16 000 men under Akhbar Khan and other leaders was descried on the heights near Tazeen (where the slaughter of our troops had taken place in January ) at the entrance of the formidable defiles called the Huft-Kothul or Seven Passes