The British managed to beat off the assaults, and even captured 300 sheep from the besieging force when rations ran short.

The following day George Pollock's Army of Retribution arrived, to be played into Jellalabad by the band of the 13th with the Scottish song "Oh but you've been a lang time acoming."

It is reported that as the regiment marched back through India to return to Britain, every garrison fired a ten gun salute in its honour.

Queen Victoria directed that the regiment be made Light Infantry, carry the additional title of "Prince Albert's Own" and wear a badge depicting the walls of the town with the word "Jellalabad".

W. L. Walton a landscape artist, working in London, who exhibited between 1834 and 1855, made the lithographic plates for General Sale's Defence of Jalalabad (c.