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

afghanistan faction. Since this was a political matter, Elphinstone passed the buck to Macnaghten, who in turn handed it to Lieu ...

nadir shah and the afghans, 1732–47 the Logari chief put to death. To undermine ’Amin Allah’s position further, Lal was told to ...

afghanistan Shortly after Burnes’s death, Lal recommended Macnaghten send a dele- gation to Khulm to broker a power-sharing deal ...

nadir shah and the afghans, 1732–47 the occupiers of the cantonment with sniper fire. During the last week of November there was ...

afghanistan right to demand any such undertaking, they were invaders and infidels and neither Afghan customary law nor the shari ...

nadir shah and the afghans, 1732–47 the jirga, and who had no desire to see Dost Muhammad Khan return as Amir or any Muhammadzai ...

afghanistan Akbar Khan’s attack on the Bala Hisar did not go down well with other factions and behind the scenes some of his riv ...

nadir shah and the afghans, 1732–47 his destruction. What Macnaghten did not know was that Hamza Khan of Tezin and ’Amin Allah K ...

afghanistan Instead, Macnaghten fell headlong into the trap. Finally, it seemed, Akbar Khan was prepared to abandon his hard lin ...

nadir shah and the afghans, 1732–47 for that.’ 33 General Elphinstone too was alarmed and wrote to Macnaghten asking him what gu ...

afghanistan to carry out the agreement reached the night before. ‘Why not?’ replied Macnaghten casually, an expression which in ...

nadir shah and the afghans, 1732–47 pledged he and other leaders would accompany the army and ensure their safe passage. As for ...

afghanistan promised by Akbar Khan never arrived and long before the canton- ment was evacuated, looters were climbing over the ...

nadir shah and the afghans, 1732–47 citadel, waving his forage cap. Assistant Surgeon William Brydon, who had been attached to S ...

afghanistan in Peshawar until the spring to allow additional reinforcements to be sent and for his troops’ morale to improve. Fi ...

nadir shah and the afghans, 1732–47 The assassination of Shah Shuja‘ and the battle for Kabul Almost as soon as British forces b ...

afghanistan John Conolly as a form of compensation, for the pir was angry that he had not received his rightful share of war boo ...

nadir shah and the afghans, 1732–47 Nawab Zaman Khan’s Barakzais. Nawab Zaman Khan then did his cause little good by having a bi ...

afghanistan General Pollock’s campaign in eastern Afghanistan On 20 August 1842 General Pollock, having ruthlessly subdued the S ...

nadir shah and the afghans, 1732–47 When Khan Shirin Khan heard he was heading to Bamiyan, he offered him a large sum of money t ...