Elphinstone let the murders of Political Agent Alexander Burnes and William Hay Macnaghten pass without exacting retribution, and signed a convention with Akbar Khan by which his army was to evacuate Kabul, and was guaranteed safe passage to Jalalabad, on the road to Peshawar.
Elphinstone let the murders of Political Agent Alexander Burnes and William Hay Macnaghten pass without exacting retribution. Finally, with his troops blockaded in an indefensible encampment outside Kabul, he signed a convention with Akbar Khan by which his army was to evacuate Kabul, and was guaranteed safe passage to Jalalabad, on the road to Peshawar.