. The historians' history of the world; a comprehensive narrative of the rise and development of nations as recorded by over two thousand of the great writers of all ages: . and of his warriors. The British Indian government,nevertheless, took no decided steps against him; on the contrary. Dost Mu-hammed found time and leisure to enlarge and strengthen his own order to secure his conquests by being on good tenns with his easternneighbours, he had already signed a treaty of offensive and defensive alliancewith the Indo-British government on March 20th, 1855. In January, 1857,he concl
. The historians' history of the world; a comprehensive narrative of the rise and development of nations as recorded by over two thousand of the great writers of all ages: . and of his warriors. The British Indian government,nevertheless, took no decided steps against him; on the contrary. Dost Mu-hammed found time and leisure to enlarge and strengthen his own order to secure his conquests by being on good tenns with his easternneighbours, he had already signed a treaty of offensive and defensive alliancewith the Indo-British government on March 20th, 1855. In January, 1857,he concluded a new alliance with the British government, as the representativeof which, the governor of Punjab, John Lawrence, conducted the negotiations. Tlie prosperity of the Afghan realm had on the whole begun to increase,but the peace was again disturbed in 1860 when Sultan Ahmed Khan ofHerat fell into a disagreement with Afzul Khan of Kunduz, the son of DostMuhammed, who was very popular among the Afghans. But Dost Muhammedknew how to restore the equilibrium now, as he had restored it in the dis-turbances in Bokhara in 1861. In the beginning of 1862, however, a Persian. THE BUFFER STATES OF CENTRAL ASIA 503 n863-1001 ] amiy from Nedjed again threatened the Afghan boundary, and Sultan AhmedKhan of Herat, at the instigation of the Persians, marched against Farah andKandahar at the head of an army corps. Then all Afghanistan was arousedand war became unavoidable. The grey-headed amir Dost Mulianmied has-tened at the head of his army against the enemy, calling at the same timeon the help of the British in British India. He cleared the frontiers and thenadvanced upon Herat, which fell into his power on May 26th, 1863, after atedious siege. Alinied Ivlian died shortly before the capture of the Muhammed died a few days afterwards, at the age of ninety-two, afterdesignating his son, Sher Ali Klian, as his heir and as ruler of the realm. Heratremained in the hands of the Afg
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