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Abdurrahman advance Afghan Afghanistan Akbar Khan Ameer arms army artillery Asmai attack Ayoub baggage Baker Balla Hissar Bamian bayonets Behmaroo brigade British Government Broadfoot Cabul CALIFORNIA LIBRARY Candahar cantonments Captain Cavagnari cavalry Chardeh valley Charikar chiefs Colonel column command defence detachment Dost Mahomed Elphinstone enemy Envoy escort evacuated fighting fire flank forward fugitive gallant garrison gate ghazees Ghilzai Ghuznee Girishk Goorkhas Gundamuk guns heights Herat hill hostages hostile India infantry Jellalabad jezail Jugdulluk Khyber killed Kohistan Kotul Lord Auckland Lord Lytton Macnaghten Macpherson Mahomed Jan Maiwand ment miles military morning Nott occupied officers passes Persia Peshawur Pir Paimal plain Pollock position Pottinger Punjaub Quetta reached rear-guard regiments resolute retreat ridge road Russian Sale sent sepoys Shah Soojah Shelton Shere Shere Ali Sherpur Sherpur cantonment Sikhs Sir Donald Stewart Sir Frederick Roberts Sirdar soldiers strong tion treaty tribesmen troops UNIVERSITY OF CALIFORNIA village wounded Yakoub Khan
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Page 37 - For as in the days that were before the flood they were eating and drinking, marrying and giving in marriage, until the day that Noe entered into the ark, and knew not until the flood came, and took them all away; so shall also the coming of the Son of man be.
Page 5 - My friend, you are aware that it is not the practice of the British Government to interfere with the affairs of other independent states...
Page 57 - Affghan and bloody Belooch, and unless several regiments be quickly sent, not a man will be left to note the fall of his comrades. Nothing but force will ever make them submit to the hated Shah Soojah, who is most certainly as great a scoundrel as ever lived.
Page 327 - It may not be very flattering to our amour propre, but I feel sure I am right •when I say that the less the Afghans see of us, the less they will dislike us.
Page 46 - Majesty was ; but surely the cases are not parallel. The Shah had no claim upon us. We had no hand in depriving him of his kingdom, whereas we ejected the Dost, who never offended us, in support of our policy, of which he was the victim.
Page 10 - Edwardes' not less trenchant comment that ' the views and conduct of Dost Mahomed were misrepresented with a hardihood which a Russian statesman might have envied.
Page 288 - If any foreign power should attempt to interfere in Afghanistan, and if such interference should lead to unprovoked aggression on the dominions of Your Highness, in that event the British Government would be prepared to aid you...
Page 17 - the ready power to crush and annihilate them, nor the will to call it into action, were wanting, if it appeared requisite, however remotely, for the safety or integrity of the Anglo-Indian Empire or frontier.
Page 91 - I am sorry to find from your letter of last night that you should have supposed it was ever my object to encourage assassination. The rebels are very wicked men, but we must not take unlawful means to destroy them.
Page 208 - after consultation with the principal Sirdars, tribal chiefs, and others representing the interests and wishes of the various provinces and cities, would declare its will as to the future permanent arrangements for the good government of the people.