Vincent Eyre (1811–1881)

Definitely falls into the category of some things never change. "At last the fatal morning dawned which was to witness the departure of the Cabul force from the cantonments, in which it had sustained a two months' siege, to encounter the miseries of a winter march through a country of perhaps unparalleled difficulty, where every mountain defile, if obstinately defended by a determined enemy, must inevitably prove the grave of hundreds." p.46