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

afghanistan the Amir said that even a vague pledge by Britain to protect the Amir from Persian aggression would be sufficient, o ...

nadir shah and the afghans, 1732–47 nature. The time lag in communications between Kabul and Calcutta, as well as Burnes’s restr ...

afghanistan This was an extraordinary decision, for Macnaghten had no military or diplomatic experience but was a former High Co ...

nadir shah and the afghans, 1732–47 Masson was also disgusted with the personal conduct of Burnes and the other British officers ...

afghanistan the government’s policy. His claim for compensation for wrongful impris­ onment and the loss of property in the Kala ...

nadir shah and the afghans, 1732–47 contemporaries, while his archaeological explorations were groundbreak­ ing. Masson almost s ...

afghanistan would be mostly a Sikh affair. However, it soon became clear that Ranjit Singh had no intention of his army becoming ...

nadir shah and the afghans, 1732–47 support for the siege of Herat was in breach of the Anglo­Persian Treaty and told him to pre ...

afghanistan were ‘ill­fitted, under any circumstances, to be allies of the British govern­ ment or to aid her just and necessary ...

nadir shah and the afghans, 1732–47 Parliamentarians, for example, did not have a copy of the Tripartite Treaty until March 1839 ...

afghanistan invasion of southern Afghanistan, as well as the chance of incorporating Qataghan’s formidable cavalry into his army ...

nadir shah and the afghans, 1732–47 of 9,500 troops of the Bengal and Bombay army and 7,000 mostly Indian levies recruited by Sh ...

Name and rank Age Regiment/command in 1838 Military background; campaigns Gen. Sir Henry Fane 60 Commander­in­Chief, India 1805– ...

nadir shah and the afghans, 1732–47 Despite General Fane’s appeal not to encumber the army with ‘large estab­ lishments’, office ...

afghanistan twenty lakh rupees for an allegedly ‘treacherous’ correspondence with the Shah of Persia. Nur Muhammad Khan pointed ...

nadir shah and the afghans, 1732–47 only ten days’ supplies left and local rulers unable, or unwilling, to supply grain and fodd ...

afghanistan the plains. Fortunately for Cotton, the army did not have to fight its way into Kandahar. Hajji Khan Kakar, whom Dos ...

nadir shah and the afghans, 1732–47 The Amir also assumed Keane would bypass Ghazni, since the Afghans believed the citadel was ...

afghanistan could theoretically still be hanged, drawn and quartered. As for public executions, they were an extremely popular e ...

nadir shah and the afghans, 1732–47 ‘Abd al­Rashid provided the critical information, Keane would have prob­ ably been forced in ...