item: #1 of 8
          id: 12863
      author: Holdsworth, T. W. E.
       title: Campaign of the Indus In a Series of Letters from an Officer of the Bombay Division
        date: None
       words: 53575
      flesch: 64
     summary: 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.
    keywords: 17th; army; artillery; bengal; bombay; cabool; camp; captain; country; day; enemy; general; ghuzni; ground; horse; indus; infantry; kelat; khan; left; letter; lieutenant; light; majesty; major; march; men; miles; native; officers; party; pass; place; rank; regiment; shah; sir; time; troops; way
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        item: #2 of 8
          id: 21979
      author: Henty, G. A. (George Alfred)
       title: For Name and Fame; Or, Through Afghan Passes
        date: None
       words: 87324
      flesch: 78
     summary: 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.
    keywords: advance; afghans; attack; boys; british; cabul; camp; candahar; captain; cavalry; close; colonel; column; day; enemy; fire; force; gale; general; good; guns; half; hand; head; left; man; men; morning; night; officers; pass; place; position; regiment; ripon; road; round; sea; ship; time; troops; valley; village; water; way; william; work; yossouf
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        item: #3 of 8
          id: 33496
      author: Taylor, William
       title: Scenes and Adventures in Affghanistan
        date: None
       words: 36391
      flesch: 60
     summary: 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.
    keywords: affghan; army; arrival; artillery; bombay; british; cabul; camp; candahar; cavalry; chapter; chief; day; days; enemy; fire; general; ghuznee; hills; horse; infantry; left; lieutenant; light; majesty; men; native; officers; order; party; place; regiment; route; shah; sir; time; town; troops; way
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        item: #4 of 8
          id: 50145
      author: Morris, Mowbray
       title: The First Afghan War
        date: None
       words: 23287
      flesch: 61
     summary: 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.
    keywords: afghan; afghanistan; ameer; army; auckland; british; burnes; cabul; candahar; chief; dost; english; force; herat; khan; lord; macnaghten; mahomed; march; men; officers; pass; sir; soojah; time; troops; way
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        item: #5 of 8
          id: 52473
      author: Adye, John, Sir
       title: Recollections of a Military Life
        date: None
       words: 89894
      flesch: 64
     summary: 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.
    keywords: 8vo; advance; army; artillery; attack; batteries; battle; british; campaign; cavalry; chief; city; colonel; commander; country; crimea; crown; day; days; edition; end; enemy; england; english; fact; field; fire; following; footnote; force; french; frontier; general; gibraltar; government; ground; guns; home; india; infantry; late; left; length; life; line; lord; lord raglan; march; means; men; miles; military; morning; native; night; officers; order; people; place; point; position; power; present; raglan; russians; sebastopol; second; service; sir; staff; subject; time; troops; view; war; years
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        item: #6 of 8
          id: 55779
      author: Henty, G. A. (George Alfred)
       title: To Herat and Cabul: A Story of the First Afghan War
        date: None
       words: 128748
      flesch: 78
     summary: 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.
    keywords: 8vo; afghan; akbar; angus; army; attack; azim; british; burnes; cabul; camp; candahar; chief; city; country; course; crown; day; days; dost; doubt; edges; enemy; english; felt; fire; force; general; good; henty; herat; horses; illustrations; india; journey; khan; left; little; macnaghten; mahomed; man; men; morning; native; news; officers; page; party; pass; passes; people; persian; place; position; pottinger; round; shah; sir; story; thought; time; town; troops; way; work
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        item: #7 of 8
          id: 7021
      author: Adye, John, Sir
       title: Indian Frontier Policy; an historical sketch
        date: None
       words: 13705
      flesch: 52
     summary: 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.
    keywords: afghanistan; ameer; asia; central; country; frontier; government; india; policy; position; russia; sir; time; tribes; war; years
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        item: #8 of 8
          id: 8428
      author: Forbes, Archibald
       title: The Afghan Wars 1839-42 and 1878-80
        date: None
       words: 89647
      flesch: 59
     summary: 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.
    keywords: abdurrahman; advance; afghan; afghanistan; akbar; ali; ameer; army; artillery; attack; baker; balla; brigade; british; cabul; cabul force; camp; candahar; cantonments; captain; cavalry; chiefs; column; command; country; day; dost; enemy; envoy; fire; force; fort; garrison; general; government; guns; heights; hill; hissar; india; infantry; jellalabad; khan; left; little; lord; macnaghten; mahomed; march; men; morning; officers; pass; people; pollock; position; right; roberts; sale; shah; shah soojah; sherpur; sir; soldiers; soojah; time; troops; valley; village
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