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... AFGHANISTAN ; OR , LETTERS FROM THE AFGHAN BOUNDARY COMMISSION . By MAJOR C. E. YATE , C.S.I. , C.M.G. , Bombay Staff Corps , F.R.G.S. 8vo , with Maps , 18s . WANDERINGS IN CHINA . Author of ' At Home in Fiji , ' & c . , & c ...
... AFGHANISTAN ; OR , LETTERS FROM THE AFGHAN BOUNDARY COMMISSION . By MAJOR C. E. YATE , C.S.I. , C.M.G. , Bombay Staff Corps , F.R.G.S. 8vo , with Maps , 18s . WANDERINGS IN CHINA . Author of ' At Home in Fiji , ' & c . , & c ...
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... Afghanistan , I was certain that any war with her was money thrown away , our first and long - neglected duty being to strengthen our exist- ing line of frontier with forts , roads , and railways . These works completed , I thought we ...
... Afghanistan , I was certain that any war with her was money thrown away , our first and long - neglected duty being to strengthen our exist- ing line of frontier with forts , roads , and railways . These works completed , I thought we ...
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... Afghanistan , and our N.W. Frontier . The result of my studies appears in the following pages . My old belief as to the right mode of dealing with the independent tribes , now wholly within our political frontier , is confirmed ; but ...
... Afghanistan , and our N.W. Frontier . The result of my studies appears in the following pages . My old belief as to the right mode of dealing with the independent tribes , now wholly within our political frontier , is confirmed ; but ...
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... Afghanistan - Mountains and rivers - The Hindu Kush the dominating feature - The people and their master- Expansion of the Afghans or Pathans - Their language— Ghilzai conquest of Persia - Afghanistan becomes an indepen- dent kingdom ...
... Afghanistan - Mountains and rivers - The Hindu Kush the dominating feature - The people and their master- Expansion of the Afghans or Pathans - Their language— Ghilzai conquest of Persia - Afghanistan becomes an indepen- dent kingdom ...
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... Afghanistan - Sindh annexed - Dost Muham- mad restored - Astute diplomacy of Russia in Central Asia- Exhaustion after the Crimea - The Caucasus subdued - Our non - intervention policy facilitates Russian schemes . · Civil war in Afghanistan ...
... Afghanistan - Sindh annexed - Dost Muham- mad restored - Astute diplomacy of Russia in Central Asia- Exhaustion after the Crimea - The Caucasus subdued - Our non - intervention policy facilitates Russian schemes . · Civil war in Afghanistan ...
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