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15. Extinction of Afghan Power in Northern India Second Campaign in Kashmir, 1813-14 month after the victory at Attock, the Durbar resolved to wrest Kashmir from the Afghans. By the time the plans were matured it was autumn and an early fall <Jf snow checked the progress of the troops. All that could be achieved that year was to prepare the ground for a campaign in the following spring. As the snows thawed, troops were mobilized. Early in June an army of nearly fifty thousand men was encamped at Wazirabad. In lhe absence of Mohkam Chand, who was taken ill, the Maharajah placed the larger part of the army-thiny thousand men-under the command of the Dewan's twenty-year-old grandson, Ram Dyal. With the youthful commander were a galaxy of famous generals: Harl Singh Nalwa. Meeth Singh Bharania, Jodh Singh Kalsia, and the artillery commander Mian Ghausa. This force proceeded towards Baramulla and Shupaiyan. The remainder of the force under Ranjit Singh's personal command made for Pooncb. The pincer movement began in the second week of July. Just then the monsoon broke in the bills. The Maharajah was held up at Rajauri by torrential rains. The force under Ram Dyal struggled on bravely, took the fortress of Baramgulla (on 20 July 1814) and went through the narrow pass to Adampur, Haripur and on to Shupaiyan. At Shupaiyan, Azim Khan, the governor of Kashmir, and his army of Afghans blocked
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