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| Keywords: Captain Colin Mackenzie.jpg Uploaded with en wp UW marker 2012 07 05 'Captain Colin Mackenzie Madras Army lately a hostage in Caubool in his Affghan Dress' 1842 c Oil on canvas by James Sant 1820-1916 1842 c This flamboyant portrait is in keeping with an officer who enjoyed as dashing a career as Captain later Lieutenant-General Colin Mackenzie 1806-1881 Joining the 48th Madras Native Infantry in 1825 he fought in various local campaigns accompanying an expedition against piracy in the Straits of Malacca in 1836 Then as Assistant Political Agent at Peshawar Lieutenant Mackenzie was sent to Kabul in 1840 during the 1st Afghan War 1838-1842 He led the defence of Kabul fort against the Afghans and the subsequent night fight to escape from it leading Sale's retreating force to Gandamak He returned to Kabul and was present at the conference between the Afghan Chief Akbar Khan and the British envoy Sir William Macnaghten where the latter was murdered Mackenzie survived the ill-fated retreat to Jalalabad only to be chosen as a hostage by Akbar Khan He was freed by a force commanded by Sir George Pollock before Akbar Khan could sell him into slavery Deeply religious he was respected by the Afghans who called him 'the English Mullah' In 1848 Mackenzie raised and commanded a Sikh regiment to keep peace on the north-west frontier of India As an expert on this area it was said to have been his influence which persuaded Lord Dalhousie the Governor-General to give up the idea of ceding the land from the Indus to Peshawar to Afghanistan Like many of his British contemporaries in India Mackenzie seems to have chosen to wear loose oriental clothes for comfort when off-duty NAM Accession Number NAM 1961-10-61-1 Copyright/Ownership National Army Museum London Location National Army Museum London Display Art Gallery Original publication 1842 c <br/> Immediate source http //www nam ac uk/online-collection/detail php q searchType 3Dsimple 26resultsDisplay 3Dlist 26simpleText 3DInfantry pos 13 total 488 page 1 acc 1961-10-61-1 1961 James Sant <br/> Life time 1820-1916 PD-old-auto-1923 1916 Clothing of Afghanistan Colin Mackenzie Indian Army officer James Sant | ||||
