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id: 7021
author: Adye, John, Sir
title: Indian Frontier Policy; an historical sketch
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  Still, on the whole, and considering the difficulties of the situation, the policy of conciliation, subsidies, and of non- interference with their internal affairs, gradually succeeded; raids once chronic became exceptional, and were dealt with rather as matters of frontier policy than of war. It was a critical period in the history of frontier policy, and demands careful consideration.


id: 50145
author: Morris, Mowbray
title: The First Afghan War
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sentence: 735
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  Macnaghten, the leader of the mission, was instructed therefore to suggest the first course to Runjeet Singh, and should he view that with disfavour, to hold out the possibility of some sort of demonstration being undertaken by British troops from some convenient point. the two illustrious prisoners set out for India, under the charge of Nicholson and a strong escort of British troops.


id: 33496
author: Taylor, William
title: Scenes and Adventures in Affghanistan
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sentence: 1281
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  There have been few men in command whose personal qualities have more endeared him to those who served under him than Sir Henry Fane. Few men have left behind them a memory so associated with every thing that is valuable and estimable in social and military life.


id: 12863
author: Holdsworth, T. W. E.
title: Campaign of the Indus In a Series of Letters from an Officer of the Bombay Division
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  He has written his own life, which is said to be very interesting: I should think it must be so, as few men have experienced so many changes of fortune as he has. At other times of the year, I believe, the climate is very pleasant.


id: 21979
author: Henty, G. A. (George Alfred)
title: For Name and Fame; Or, Through Afghan Passes
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  Read books of travel and the biographies of great men, and keep yourself well posted--as you are doing--in current public events. Following his master, the lad went out from the store and along the wharf and, presently, stepped upon a smack on which several men, and a boy, were at work.


id: 8428
author: Forbes, Archibald
title: The Afghan Wars 1839-42 and 1878-80
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  The advance of British forces beyond Bamian to Syghan and Bajgah, induced that Sirdar to commit himself and the ladies to British protection. It could not seriously be maintained that he was secure in power, or that the independence and integrity of Afghanistan were established when British troops were holding Candahar, Ghuznee and Cabul, the only three positions where the Shah was nominally paramount, when the fugitive Dost was still within its borders, when intrigue and disaffection were seething in every valley and on every hill-side, and when the principality of Herat maintained a contemptuous independence.


id: 52473
author: Adye, John, Sir
title: Recollections of a Military Life
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  Generals Dupuis and Windham, and many other officers, were of the party; and from Cairo we had to cross the desert (about ninety miles) in uncomfortable carriages like bathing machines. The enemy, however, were not in great force at this point, and the French gained the crest with comparatively few casualties.


id: 55779
author: Henty, G. A. (George Alfred)
title: To Herat and Cabul: A Story of the First Afghan War
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  They are good men and faithful to me, and I rely upon them as I could not do on any of my own tribesmen. I don't like the idea of killing the man, Azim. You killed many men at Herat.


