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

afghanistan harrowing account of the pillage and slaughter of Maimana and ‘Alam Khan’s repressive reign, the Amir was appalled. ...

nadir shah and the afghans, 1732–47 bothered to include him in the diplomatic exchanges or ask his opinion on the proposed front ...

afghanistan assistance in such circumstances. Northbrook, however, rejected this inter- pretation and pointed out any assistance ...

nadir shah and the afghans, 1732–47 In the end all Nur Muhammad Shah gained from his visit was a second Viceregal aide-memoire a ...

afghanistan The imprisonment of Ya‘qub Khan was a cause of further tension between Britain and the Amir. Northbrook had not inte ...

nadir shah and the afghans, 1732–47 mercenaries. In response Russia threatened to send its army across the Danube to protect the ...

afghanistan All those who are best qualified to form an opinion say that the Amir will strongly object to the presence of Britis ...

nadir shah and the afghans, 1732–47 after Pollock’s relief army arrived, probably from wounds received during the siege. Frere h ...

afghanistan If, on the other hand, the Ameer showed obvious signs of dis - inclination to improve his relations with us, I would ...

nadir shah and the afghans, 1732–47 The Pelly Mission and the Peshawar Conference One of Lytton’s first acts as Viceroy was to o ...

afghanistan offer of a meeting in Peshawar and accused the Amir of ‘hastily rejecting the hand of friendship held out to you’. H ...

nadir shah and the afghans, 1732–47 the Indian telegraph from Peshawar to Kabul. When ‘Ata Muhammad returned to Kabul Sher ‘Ali ...

afghanistan British presence in Afghanistan. The result was a deadlock that lasted for three months. While the Peshawar Conferen ...

nadir shah and the afghans, 1732–47 did not, and could not, thereby commit the British Government to an unconditional protection ...

afghanistan will scrupulously continue... to respect the Amir’s independence . .. and duly refrain from every kind of interferen ...

nadir shah and the afghans, 1732–47 itself yet again caught up in the fallout from a European confrontation. The Russian interve ...

afghanistan The stand-off with Britain continued unresolved until the summer of 1878, meanwhile Turkey suffered a major defeat i ...

nadir shah and the afghans, 1732–47 Grodekov to recall Stoletov, disowned the Kabul mission and withdrew any offers of assistanc ...

afghanistan the commander of the Afghan border post at ‘Ali Masjid wrote to Cavagnari informing him that, since he had received ...

nadir shah and the afghans, 1732–47 As far as Lytton was concerned this was too little too late, nor was it the ‘clear and unequ ...