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owes the most distant possible is restored by the appointment of a new Ameer;
and Abdul Rahman, a Pure and simple nephew of Wings that had been being for twelve years
an exile in Bokhara, Cabul was invited to, and you/he/she was sustained by us in
supposing the title.
Principal conditions were, that its foreign policy owed to be under our
it drives that anybody official English was to reside as our representatives
in Afghanistan, and that he was to receive a benefit.
2. What the British troops should be you withdraw as soon as the
pacification of the country would allow. This decision was recommended
not only from the Viceroy, the Marquis of Ripon, but from the tallest
official that had held command during the war. Mr. Donald Stewart that
it was command of head and Mr. Frederick Roberts, both coincided in ours
withdrawal from the country; the Passage of Kyber would be kept from subsidized
tribe and the Valley of Koorum to be abandoned together; the
the independence of the tribes that I/you/they are in every case recognized. Mr. John
Watson that was in command in that valley pointed out that as a run of routing
from India in Afghanistan it was practically useless. As a further
I deduce in favour of withdrawal, you/he/she can be to allude well to the fact
what the men of our native regiments were ill of service in
Afghanistan, far street from their houses, and that it would be impolitic
to hold there them.
Some differences of opinion existed as to if we should abandon
possession of Candahar; but as it was 400 miles the Indus in a,
foreign country, and as ours remaining would be hateful not only to
the Afghans, but in a military sense it would be dangerous and expensive his/her,
the end abandonment was definite on; the valley of Pisheen, among
Candahar and Quetta, being held back alone by the British Government.
Then it ended the great war of 1878-80. To his/her closing we had on 70,000 men
in Afghanistan, or on the border in reserve; and even then us really
only it held the territory inside series of our guns. The whole country had