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Life Of The Amir Dost Mohammed Khan, Of Kabul V2 - With His Political Proceedings Towards The English, Russian, And Persian Governments (1846) (Paperback)
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Life Of The Amir Dost Mohammed Khan, Of Kabul V2 - With His Political Proceedings Towards The English, Russian, And Persian Governments (1846) (Paperback)
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for free. This is an OCR edition with typos. Excerpt from book: (
183 ) CHAPTER XV. Affairs of Afghanistan?The British army crosses
the Indus? Sir Alexander Burnes and Mohan Lai remain in the rear?'
They rejoin the army?Passage of the Bolan pass?Sir Alexander and
his suite arrive at Kalat?Conduct of the Khan and his
ministers?Treaty with him?His intrigues and bad faith?Progress of
the Shah Shuja?Part of the Bombay army, under Major-Gen. Wilshire,
sent against Mir Mehrab Khan?Storming of Kalat and death of the
Khan?Shah Navaz Khan installed?Captain Loveday appointed resident?
His conduct in that capacity ? Unjust remarks of Mr. Masson. I
Shall now resume again my narrative of the army of the Indus. On
the 6th of February, 1839, the troops on the road to Haidarabad,
under the Commander-in-Chief and Sir Willoughby Cotton, were
ordered to return, and by the 18th the whole baggage and the
ordnance had crossed the Indus. In Shikarpur we every day received
numerous letters from the various chiefs of Bilochistan and of
Afghanistan, all professing their joy at our approach, and all
entertaining hopes of the reward that might be 184 SIR A. BURNES AT
SlllKARPUR. promised for co-operating with us in furtherance of the
object of the expedition. Sir Alexander Burnes, feeling not
inclined to enter Afghanistan subordinate to another political
head, the envoy and minister, Sir William Macnaghten, suggested the
propriety of his remaining at Shikarpur, in the rear of the army;
and this was agreed to by his superior. It was evident, and a topic
of conversation in the camp, that the two rival politicians do not
wish to act jointly in one field of honour and fame. At the same
time Sir Alexander Burnes requested the envoy to leave me with him
for the purpose of settling the Commissariat and the Shikarpuri
bankers' accounts, which, as I was desirous to...
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