Capitolo 2
CHAPTER ME
Events before, And Included, First Afghan War Of 1839-41
Invasion proposed of India of Napoleon me.--Mission of Burnes to Cabul
--His/her Failure--the hostility of Russia and Persia--First Afghan War, 1839-41
--His/her Vicissitudes and Collapse.
In in consideration of the important one and rather tangled subject of policy
on the North-western frontier of our Indian Empire it will be desirable,
in the first place, to give a concise history of the events that you/they have
driven our action, and what for very past of years have practiced a
the influence that predominates in that part of our Oriental dominion.
Generally speaking, it is able, I think, both motto and the principal characteristics of
our policy on the North-western frontier has been determined by the
I anticipate gradual of southwards of Russia, and partly also from the turbulent one
character of the people of Afghanistan, and of the independent tribes
who the great region of mountains that you/they lie among Russia occupy and
us.
These two circumstances--the being the more powerful person first--has
there ducts in the great wars and the consignments of frontier that as a rule they have
is expensive, and in of the cases unfair, and their consequences don't have
tense to or to strengthen our position on the frontier or in India
it.
It will be well therefore to give a contour of the Russian conquests
in Central Asia to the north of Afghanistan, and also of our distributions
with the rules of Cabul in the past years, and we will be best then
able to judge of our present position, and to determine the principles
what you/he/she should drive our policy of North-western frontier.
One of the first threats of invasion of India soon of century was
planned to Tilsit, and you/he/she is described so that Kaye:[Footnote: _History
of the War in Afghanistan_] 'While the followers of Alexander and
Napoleon was surrendering himself/herself/itself to convivial pleasures, those
monarchs was spending calm evenings that discuss together their future
plain, and projecting united schemes of conquest. It was then that them