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As they passed down through the Punjaub, Dost Mahomed passed up on his way to reoccupy the position from which he had been driven. And so ended the first Afghan war, a period of history in which no redeeming features are perceptible except the defence of Jellalabad, the dogged firmness of Nott, and Pollock's noble and successful constancy of purpose.
His grandest victory perhaps the grandest ever achieved by man was over the terrible Mahomed the Second; who, after the taking of Constantinople in 1453, said, "One God in Heaven one king on earth;" and marched to besiege Belgrade at the head of one hundred, and fifty thousand men; swearing by the beard of the prophet, "That he would sup within it ere two months were elapsed."
When I was in the Namaquas' land, we preferred them to any other food; but I see another variety of game on the plain there." "What?" Omrah pointed them out. They are coming right towards us; but Mahomed says breakfast is ready." By the time that breakfast was finished, a party of twelve Korannas had joined the caravan.
Conquest of Khiva, Bokhara, and Kokand by Russia British Conquest of Scinde and the Punjaub Our Policy with the Frontier Tribes Treaty of 1857 with Dost Mahomed Shere Ali succeeds as Ameer, 1868 War of 1878 Abdul Rahman becomes Ameer Withdrawal of British Army from Afghanistan, 1881.
The procession was marching on quite smoothly, when a man, armed with a dagger, rushed out of an alley straight towards the king. Nur Mahomed, who was the nearest of the guards, threw himself in the way, and received the stab that had been apparently intended for the king.
In 1842 Mahomed Ali, Khan of Khokand, a chief of considerable ability and character, died, and his authority passed, after some confusion, to his kinsman, Khudayar, who was a man of little capacity and indisposed to meddle with the affairs of his neighbors.
This morning Shereef Sidi Mahomed Moora Abdalla, a native of Morocco, arrived with five bullocks loaded with salt. He had formerly resided some months at Gibraltar, where he had picked up as much English as enabled him to make himself understood. He informed me that he had been five months in coming from Santa Cruz; but that great part of the time had been spent in trading.
His example animated his men with such a degree of enthusiasm, that the division to which he was opposed, although encouraged by the presence of Mahomed himself, could no longer withstand the desperate courage of the Christians, and fled in all directions.
He gathered up the rest of his dinner and carefully wrapped it up to carry away and bury somewhere; and then he sent back the empty plates. How furious the king was when, at the next morning's durbar, Nur Mahomed appeared before him fresh, alert, and smiling as usual.
Out of the sun-scorched deserts of Arabia, with the Koran in the one hand and the sword in the other, the followers of Mahomed swept eastward to the confines of China, northward through Asia Minor into Eastern Europe, and westward through Africa into Spain, and even into the heart of medieval France.
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