{"book":"adl0970","page":174,"text":"131\n\non European models. French engineers and\nartificers were busy in casting cannon and\nstrengthening the defences of Persia. Napoleon's\nagents were found visiting Persian ports in the\nsouth, and intriguing and negotiating with the\nambassadors of the Mirs of Sindh, preparations\npreliminary to a French invasion of India.\n\nIt was in July, 1807, that the two Emperors,\nNapoleon of France and Alexander I of Russia,\nsigned the treaty of Tilsit. After a brief but\nbloody war, they embraced each other like\nbrothers. In a few days the scene had changed.\nIn an atmosphere of cordiality the two monarchs\ndecided upon a combined invasion of India.\nLucien Bonaparte, the brother of Napoleon, was\ndestined for Tehran Mission, and no secret was\nmade of the intention of the two great poten-\ntates.\n\nThese negotiations and war preparations had\nthe effect of rousing the British Government to\ntry to recover their lost ascendency at the Persian\nCourt and to protect their Indian Empire by\nbinding the Western Frontier States in a chain\nof friendly alliances. Missions were, therefore,","chars":1073,"image":"https://storage.googleapis.com/adl-page-images/adl0970/00174.jpg","first_page":1,"last_page":191,"title":"Afghanistan","permalink":"https://afghanpress.org/book/adl0970/174","canvas":"https://afghanpress.org/iiif/adl0970/canvas/174","source":"https://afghanistandl.nyu.edu/books/adl0970/","source_pdf":"https://afghanistandl.nyu.edu/pdf/adl0970_download.pdf","rights":{"image":{"statement":"Public domain. NYU states: \"All works presented on this website are, unless otherwise indicated, in the public domain. The images available on this website may be freely reproduced, distributed and transmitted by anyone for any purpose, commercial or non-commercial.\"","uri":"http://rightsstatements.org/vocab/NoC-US/1.0/","holder":"New York University Libraries","source":"https://afghanistandl.nyu.edu/about.html","delivery":"Images are served from a copy mirrored by this project, not from NYU's servers, under the reproduction terms above.","endorsement":"This is an independent project. It is not affiliated with, endorsed by, or reviewed by New York University."},"text":{"statement":"Machine-generated transcription, dedicated to the public domain under CC0 1.0. No warranty of accuracy: see the provenance block on every page.","uri":"https://creativecommons.org/publicdomain/zero/1.0/","holder":"Steps Ventures"}},"provenance":{"text_produced_by":"gemini-3.1-pro-preview","thinking_level":"low","read_completed":"2026-08-09","per_page_confidence":null,"per_page_confidence_note":"Not recorded during the corpus run. No calibrated per-page score exists, and none is estimated here.","human_reviewed":false,"accuracy_context":"Roughly two thirds of characters agree with a modern printed edition of the same text. Much of the disagreement is editorial, not misreading. Treat the transcription as a finding aid and read the page image before quoting.","primary_source":"The page image. The text is an index into it."}}