From the preface:"CIRCUMSTANCES having placed at my disposal a number of very interesting and important letters and papers, illustrative of the History of the War in Afghanistan, I undertook to write this Work.
History of the War in Afghanistan: Bk. 1 (1800-1837), Bk. 2 (1835-1838), Bk. 3 (1838-1839), Bk. 4 (1840-1841)
General Elphinstone's report is meagre and unsatisfactory, and does not even allude to any supposed expediency of supporting Sir Alexander Burnes: —“It was proposed,” he says, “that Brigadier Shelton, with two regiments and guns, ...
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This work has been selected by scholars as being culturally important, and is part of the knowledge base of civilization as we know it.