{"book":"adl0973","page":170,"text":"obliged to fall back and it was after many\nhardships and forced marches that at last\nhe succeeded in meeting the Marshal at\nSijinak.\n\nThe Marshal was in no way dismayed به هراس و خوف افتادن\nor disheartened. Even at this time in spite\nof the discouraging rumours that all was lost,\nhe kept his head. He would say, \"I cannot\nlose heart by such ordinary repulses. I have\ndetermined to fight to the last. Even if\nthere be nobody to help me, I, with my\nrifle, will continue single-handed to fight\nthe enemy, with the idea of doing my duty\nand averting باز داشتن from my nation this catastrophe.\nEither I will achieve my object or lay down\nmy life in the attempt to secure national\npeace and prosperity.\" Once more he\ninvited the tribal chiefs to a jirgah, telling\nthem that the repulse was not due to smaller\nnumbers or military skill but to the treachery\nof Ghaus-ud-Din, who was secretly in the\nBacha's pay; and that they should not\nthink of giving up this fight for the noble\ncause of national deliverance, for he was\nsure success would crown their efforts in\nthe long run.\n\n131","chars":1076,"image":"https://storage.googleapis.com/adl-page-images/adl0973/00170.jpg","first_page":1,"last_page":315,"title":"Progressive Afghanistan","permalink":"https://afghanpress.org/book/adl0973/170","canvas":"https://afghanpress.org/iiif/adl0973/canvas/170","source":"https://afghanistandl.nyu.edu/books/adl0973/","source_pdf":"https://afghanistandl.nyu.edu/pdf/adl0973_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."}}