{"book":"adl0970","page":176,"text":"133\n\nwas then at a low ebb; his country was in a most\nunsettled condition, and his throne seemed to be\ntottering under him. He made himself busy\ncollecting an army, and was projecting a great\nmilitary expedition. On the 14th of June the\nMission turned its back on Peshawar and left for\nIndia.\n\nElphinstone had scarcely left Peshawar when\nnews was received that Kabul had been occupied\nby Mahmud with the aid of Fateh Khan. Before\nthe Mission had cleared the limits of the Durrani\nEmpire, Shah Shuja had given battle to his\nenemies, and had been disastrously defeated.\nThe month of June had not worn to a close\nbefore it was evident that his cause was almost\nlost. Still, he did not abandon the contest. It\nwas now rumoured that Mahmud had reached\nJigdalik with the object of making an advance\nupon Peshawar. There was no time to lose.\nThe Shah, taking precautionary measures, sent\nhis family towards Rawalpindi for safety, accom-\npanied by his blinded brother, Zaman Shah.\n\nAfter making necessary preparations, Shah\nShuja left Peshawar for Kabul. He first encamped","chars":1064,"image":"https://storage.googleapis.com/adl-page-images/adl0970/00176.jpg","first_page":1,"last_page":191,"title":"Afghanistan","permalink":"https://afghanpress.org/book/adl0970/176","canvas":"https://afghanpress.org/iiif/adl0970/canvas/176","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."}}