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97
Mirza ‘Ata,
Naway Ma’arek
, pp. 173–6.
98
Johnson,
The Afghan Way of War
, p. 53.
99
Durand,
The First Afghan War and its Causes
, pp. 166–7.
100
Mirza ‘Ata,
Naway Ma’arek
, pp. 173–6.
101
Ibid.
102
Fayz Mohammad,
Siraj ul-Tawarikh
, vol. I, p. 228.
103
Mohan Lal,
Life of Dost Mohammad
, vol. II, p. 307.
104
Havelock,
Narrative of the War in Affghanistan
, vol. II, p. 97.
105
Mohan Lal,
Life of Dost Mohammad
, vol. II, pp. 236–7.
106
Johnson,
The Afghan Way of War
, p. 53.
107
Kashmiri,
Akbarnama
, ch. 14.
108
Lawrence,
Reminiscences of Forty Three Years in India
, p. 25.
109
Kaye,
History of the War in Afghanistan
, vol. I, p. 461.

110
       Hough,
March and Operations of the Army of the Indus
, pp. 251–2.

Chapter 5: The Flag of Holy War

 
1
Khalfin,
Vozmezdie ozhidaet v Dzhagda
(Drama in a Boarding House).
 
2
BL, Add Mss 48535, Clanricarde to Palmerston, 25 May 1839.
 
3
Kaye,
History of the War in Afghanistan
, vol. I, p. 209n.
 
4
NAI, Foreign, Secret Consultations, 18 December 1839, no. 6, Translation of a letter from Nazir Khan Ullah at Bokhara to the address of the British Envoy and Minister at Kabul dated 15th Rajab / 24 September 1839.
 
5
Perovsky,
A Narrative of the Russian Military Expedition to Khiva
, pp. 73–5. Also quoted, in a slightly different translation, in Morrison,
Twin Imperial Disasters
, pp. 22–4. Morrison says only four letters from Vitkevitch in Kabul survive in his file in the Russian archives.
 
6
Khalfin,
Vozmezdie ozhidaet v Dzhagda
(Drama in a Boarding House); also Morrison,
Twin Imperial Disasters
, p. 23.
 
7
Khalfin,
Vozmezdie ozhidaet v Dzhagda
(Drama in a Boarding House),pp. 194–206.
 
8
Sungurov’s notes were assembled into a memoir by his cousin I. A. Polferov in ‘Predatel’ (The Traitor),
Istoricheskij vestnik
,
St Petersburg, vol. 100 (1905),p. 498 and note. See also Kessler,
Ivan Viktorovitch Vitkevitch
, pp. 16–18.
 
9
Blaramberg,
Vospominania
, p. 64.
10
Morrison,
Twin Imperial Disasters
, p. 32.
11
George Pottinger and Patrick Macrory,
The Ten-Rupee Jezail: Figures in the First Afghan War 1838–42
, London, 1993, p. 7.
12
Yapp,
Strategies
, p. 268; David,
Victoria’s Wars
, p. 35.
13
Eden,
Up the Country
, pp. 205–6.
14
Waqi’at-i-Shah Shuja
, p. 126, The Thirty-Fifth Event.
15
Gleig,
Sale’s Brigade in Afghanistan
, p. 69.
16
Hopkins,
The Making of Modern Afghanistan
, pp. 144–8.
17
James Rattray,
The Costumes of the Various Tribes, Portraits of Ladies of Rank, Celebrated Princes and Chiefs, Views of the Principal Fortresses and Cities, and Interior of the Cities and Temples of Afghaunistan
, London, 1848, p. 16.
18
Mirza ‘Ata,
Naway Ma’arek
, pp. 211–24.
19
Gleig,
Sale’s Brigade in Afghanistan
, pp. 69–70.
20
Ibid., pp. 71–2.
21
Rattray,
The Costumes of the Various Tribes
, p. 16.
22
Many thanks to Craig Murray for bringing this to my attention. Both Alexander and James Burnes, as well as Mohan Lal Kashmiri, were enthusiastic Masons
23
Lawrence,
Reminiscences of Forty Three Years in India
, p. 27.
24
Eden,
Miss Eden’s Letters
, p. 315.
25
Fayz Mohammad,
Siraj ul-Tawarikh
, vol. I, p. 228.
26
Mohammad Ghulam Kohistani,
Jangnama
, p. 70.
27
Lawrence,
Reminiscences of Forty Three Years in India
, p. 20.
28
J. H. Stocqueler,
Memorials of Affghanistan: State Papers, Official Documents, Dispatches, Authentic Narratives etc Illustrative of the British Expedition to, and Occupation of, Affghanistan and Scinde, between the years 1838 and 1842
, Calcutta, 1843, Appendix I, ‘The Pursuit of Dost Mohammad Khan by Major Outram of the Bombay Army’, p. iv.
29
Ibid.,
p. ix.
30
Ibid.
31
Mirza ‘Ata,
Naway Ma’arek
, pp. 211–24 .
32
Fayz Mohammad,
Siraj ul-Tawarikh
, vol. I, pp. 228–31.
33
BL, OIOC, Elphinstone Papers, Mss Eur F89/3/7; Yapp,
Strategies
, p. 332.
34
Forrest,
Life of
Field Marshal Sir Neville Chamberlain
, pp. 54–5.
35
Macintyre,
Josiah the Great
, pp. 264, 308.
36
Gleig,
Sale’s Brigade in Afghanistan
, p. 71.
37
Mohan Lal,
Life of Dost Mohammad
, vol. II, pp. 305–12; Noelle,
State and Tribe in Nineteenth-Century Afghanistan
,
p. 226; Mirza ‘Ata,
Naway Ma’arek
, p. 197.
38
Thomas J. Barfield, ‘Problems of Establishing Legitimacy in Afghanistan’,
Iranian Studies
,
vol. 37, no. 2, June 2004, p. 273.
39
BL, Broughton Papers, Add Mss 36474, fol. 188, Auckland to Hobhouse, 21 December 1839.
40
Waqi’at-i-Shah Shuja
, p. 127, The Thirty-Fifth Event.
41
Lawrence,
Reminiscences of Forty Three Years in India
, p. 32.
42
Seaton,
From Cadet to Colonel
,
p. 109.
43
Sultan Mohammad Khan Durrani,
Tarikh-i-Sultani
,
p. 258.
44
NAI, Foreign, Secret Consultations, 18 December 1839, no. 6, Translation of a letter from Nazir Khan Ullah at Bokhara to the address of the British Envoy and Minister at Kabul dated 15th Rajab / 24 September 1839.
45
Ibid.
46
NAI, Foreign, Secret Consultations, 8 September 1842, no. 37–38, Sir A. Burnes Cabool to Captain G. L. Jacob, Rajcote
,
Private, Cabool, 19 September 1839.
47
Yapp,
Strategies
, p. 339.
48
Eden,
Miss Eden’s Letters
, p. 323.
49
Quoted in Yapp,
Strategies
, p. 344.
50
Gleig,
Sale’s Brigade in Afghanistan
, pp. 49–50.
51
Ibid., p. 50.
52
National Army Museum, NAM 7101–24–3, Roberts to Sturt, 10 May 1840.
53
Yapp,
Strategies
,
pp. 322–3.
54
Mirza ‘Ata,
Naway Ma’arek
, pp. 211–24.
55
Kaye,
Lives of Indian Officers
, vol. II, pp. 282–3.

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