Kotul

Kilo, thence through the Kotul defile, and ascending the Khurd Kabul

Afghanistan and the Anglo-Russian Dispute Theo. F. Rodenbough

The whole country between Khuggur and Koord Cabul, even including the high ground of this, or Huft-Kotul, presents the same formation, but from

Journals of Travels in Assam, Burma, Bhootan, Afghanistan and the Neighbouring Countries William Griffith

After an artillery duel which lasted for three hours the Afghan fire was partially quelled; Cobbe's infantry pushed on and up from ridge to ridge, and at length they reached a crest within 800 yards of the guns on the Kotul, whence their rifle fire compelled the Afghan gunners to abandon their batteries.

The Afghan Wars 1839-42 and 1878-80 Archibald Forbes 1869

Macpherson, marching from the Surkh Kotul toward Urgundeh, had observed parties of Afghans crossing his front in the direction of the Chardeh valley, and when the sound reached him of Massy's artillery fire he wheeled to his left through a break in the hills opening into the Chardeh valley, and approached the scene of the discomfiture of Massy's force.

The Afghan Wars 1839-42 and 1878-80 Archibald Forbes 1869

Reinforcements were observed hurrying up from Ayoub's standing camp at Mazra, and the Afghan guns on the Kotul had been reversed so that their fire should enfilade the British advance.

The Afghan Wars 1839-42 and 1878-80 Archibald Forbes 1869

Kotul, while the other column (Thelwall's) was ordered to attack in front, the object being to have the enemy between two fires.

The Afghan Wars 1839-42 and 1878-80 Archibald Forbes 1869

Kotul placed between two fires and their line of retreat compromised, began to waver.

The Afghan Wars 1839-42 and 1878-80 Archibald Forbes 1869

Building on the erroneous information that the enemy were in a hollow trying to withdraw their guns -- in reality they were already in their entrenched position on the summit of the Kotul -- he ordered Cobbe's (the left) column to turn the right of the supposed Afghan position, and debar the enemy from the

The Afghan Wars 1839-42 and 1878-80 Archibald Forbes 1869