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HISTORY
OF
THE WAR IN AFGHANISTAN.
By JOHN WILLIAM KAYE, F.R.S.
THIRD EDITION.
IN THREE VOLUMES.
VOL. II.
LONDON:
WM. H. ALLEN & CO., 13, WATERLOO PLACE,
Publishers to the India Office.
1874.
LONDON.
PRINTED BY W. CLOWES AND SONS, STAMFORD STREET
AND CHARING CROSS.
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BOOK IV.
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| CHAPTER I. | |
| [August-December, 1839.] | |
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| Dawn of the Restoration—Difficulties of our Position—ProposedWithdrawal of the Army—Arrival of Colonel Wade—HisOperations—Lord on the Hindoo-Koosh—Evils of our Policy—DefectiveAgency—Moollah Shikore—Our Political Agents—Operationsin the Khybur Pass—The Fall of Khelat | 1 |
| CHAPTER II. | |
| [January-September, 1840.] | |
| The Great Game in Central Asia—The Russian Expedition to Khiva—Apprehensionsof Burnes—Colonel Stoddart—Affairs onthe Hindoo-Koosh—Failure of the Russian Expedition—Conductof the Sikhs—Herat and Yar Mahomed—Mission ofAbbott and Shakespear—Disturbances in the Ghilzye Country—Fallof Khelat—Arthur Conolly | 32 |
| CHAPTER III. | |
| [June-November, 1840.] | |
| The last Struggles of Dost Mahomed—The British in the Hindoo-Koosh—TheAmeer’s Family—Occupation of Bajgah—Disasterof Kamurd—Escape of Dost Mahomed—Feverish State ofCaubul—Dennie’s Brigade—Defeat of the Ameer—Sale in theKohistan—The Battle o ... BU KİTABI OKUMAK İÇİN ÜYE OLUN VEYA GİRİŞ YAPIN!Sitemize Üyelik ÜCRETSİZDİR! |