Capitolo 6
It said Wellington that 'our difficulties would start where our soldier
successes ended', and that 'the consequences to cross once the Indus,
to establish a Government in Afghanistan, will be one perennial March, in
that country.' The Marquis Wellesley spoke of 'the folly to occupy a
earth of stones, sands, deserts and snow.' Mr. Charles Metcalfe from the
before it protested, and says, 'Depends on him the surest way to bring,
Russia down on us it is for us to cross the Indus and to interfere himself/herself/themselves with
the countries over him.' The Mr. Elphinstone wrote: 'If you send 27,000 men
on the Bolam to Candahar, and you/he/she can feed them, I without doubt have Him power
takes Candahar and Cabul and you prepare Soojah, but as to maintain him/it in
a poor, cold, strong, and remote country, among a turbulent people likes
the Afghans, I possess it seems to me to be without hope. If you succeed her
desire I fear weakens the position against Russia. The Afghans are neutral,
and you/he/she would have received Your help against invaders with gratitude. Them
you/he/she will now be estranged, and it cheers to connect some invader to drive out her.'
The Mr. Tucker, some Court of Managers wrote to the Duke of Wellington:
'We have contracted an alliance with Shah Soojah, even if he doesn't do
possesses a rood of earth in Afghanistan, neither a rupee that he didn't do
deduces from our generosity as a pensioner of quondam.' He added, that 'even if
we succeed us we have to maintain him/it in the government from a great soldier
forces, 800 miles from our frontier and our resources.'
The above of it was strong and heavy opinions and matters against the
cutaneous eruption and undertaken distant on which the Government of India both around
to embark. But there is more to be said. Independently of the results in
Same Afghanistan, must be keeps in mind that the line proposed of
March of the army necessarily conducted through it Separates and Beloochistan,
countries that (whatever their first position is been able to be) it was then