Afghanistan. A History from 1260 to the Present - Jonathan L. Lee (2018)

afghanistan visited his home town of Montrose, the mayor held a public banquet in his honour. Burnes was promoted to captain, th ...

nadir shah and the afghans, 1732–47 Burnes also maintained that Persia still had a role to play in the defence of India, albeit ...

afghanistan up residence with one of the leaders of the city’s Armenian community. Masson was a keen archaeologist and in Septem ...

nadir shah and the afghans, 1732–47 Central Asian policy that he referred to his time as news writer as ‘thral­ d o m ’. 24 It d ...

afghanistan Beg, the amir of Saighan and a notorious slave­trader who regularly raided Shi‘a Hazara settlements. When Yazdan Bak ...

nadir shah and the afghans, 1732–47 and he was also granted the unprecedented right to purchase arms in Delhi tax­free as well a ...

afghanistan depose Sultan Muhammad Khan and install a Sikh governor, Hari Singh, in his place. When Dost Muhammad Khan returned ...

nadir shah and the afghans, 1732–47 former Durrani territories. Wade duly forwarded the letter to Calcutta but included a coveri ...

afghanistan Yet even Dost Muhammad had little hope that the war would end in anything but defeat. ‘He was a weak fly about to en ...

nadir shah and the afghans, 1732–47 and misguided’ conduct of the Sikhs, and renewed his request for British mediation, concludi ...

afghanistan garrison, attacked and scattered the Afghans with heavy loss of life. Akbar Khan’s army was only saved from annihila ...

nadir shah and the afghans, 1732–47 officials, after all, had intervened to prevent a Sikh invasion of Sind, so maybe Britain wo ...

afghanistan the Afghan­Sikh War, securing in the process Britain’s commercial and political supremacy beyond the Khyber Pass. In ...

nadir shah and the afghans, 1732–47 Sikhs, pointing out that there could be no improvement in trans­Indus trade unless the war e ...

afghanistan Though Burnes did not know it at the time of his first meeting, some two weeks before he arrived in Kabul, Lord Auck ...

nadir shah and the afghans, 1732–47 Russia was encouraging the attack as a way to extend its influence into Afghanistan and McNe ...

afghanistan reinforcements. A further 3,000 men and 32 additional artillery pieces were sent to assist him and eventually Asaf a ...

nadir shah and the afghans, 1732–47 Pottinger, who was in Herat travelling through Afghanistan in disguise, secured an audience ...

afghanistan the time this news reached Burnes and McNeill the damage had been done. British officials regarded Simonich’s action ...

nadir shah and the afghans, 1732–47 offered to pay Lahore a portion of the Peshawar revenues. Burnes wrote about this ‘settlemen ...