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[i]

HISTORY

OF

THE WAR IN AFGHANISTAN.


[ii]
[iii]

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.


[iv]

LONDON.
PRINTED BY W. CLOWES AND SONS, STAMFORD STREET
AND CHARING CROSS.


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CONTENTS.

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BOOK IV.

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CHAPTER I.
[August-December, 1839.]
PAGE
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 Khelat1
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 Conolly32
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
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