The Eastern MenaceKegan, Paul, Trench & Company, 1881 - 344 Seiten |
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... Cabul and through- out Afghanistan of a predominant British influence . sufficiently powerful ' to control , ' as Lord Lytton the Viceroy tersely put it , the foreign policy and relations of that country . ' In other words , to ...
... Cabul and through- out Afghanistan of a predominant British influence . sufficiently powerful ' to control , ' as Lord Lytton the Viceroy tersely put it , the foreign policy and relations of that country . ' In other words , to ...
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... Cabul road lay through a series of most formidable defiles , which had witnessed , in years still remembered , the destruction of a British force . The magnitude of the task , of pushing forward an army to Cabul in sufficient strength ...
... Cabul road lay through a series of most formidable defiles , which had witnessed , in years still remembered , the destruction of a British force . The magnitude of the task , of pushing forward an army to Cabul in sufficient strength ...
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... Cabul , could be attributed by the Afghans to no other motive but weakness . And as a matter of fact their conviction was the truth . In the very able summary of the reasons held by the Government of India , contained in the despatch ...
... Cabul , could be attributed by the Afghans to no other motive but weakness . And as a matter of fact their conviction was the truth . In the very able summary of the reasons held by the Government of India , contained in the despatch ...
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... Cabul . The weakness of the old North West frontier when it had become exposed , as now acknowledged , to military and political influences more formidable than those of marauding tribes and weak governments of barbarous states beyond ...
... Cabul . The weakness of the old North West frontier when it had become exposed , as now acknowledged , to military and political influences more formidable than those of marauding tribes and weak governments of barbarous states beyond ...
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... Cabul . The main advantage of the per- manent influence we intended to assert in Cabul con- sisted in the power to make use of Afghanistan as an admirable defensive position , to make that country rather than India the battle - field in ...
... Cabul . The main advantage of the per- manent influence we intended to assert in Cabul con- sisted in the power to make use of Afghanistan as an admirable defensive position , to make that country rather than India the battle - field in ...
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