{"book":"adl0973","page":199,"text":"booty. The Sardar was highly pleased to\nlearn of their success but immediately sent\nتعداد another batch to guard the pass, which had,\nhowever, been reoccupied by the enemy in\nthe interval. A second fight had to be fought.\nAt the same time another lashkar under\nAllah Nawaz Khan was sent to attack the\nSaqaoists at Mohammad Agha. The place\nwas stormed; large quantity of arms and\nammunition were taken. Another detach-\nment proceeded to the help of those who\nwere fighting for Wagho-Jan Pass, and\nattacked the enemy from the other side.\nThe Saqaoists lost heart and dispersed. The\npass was occupied and a guard posted there.\n\nFor the last forty-eight hours since the\ncommencement of the battle, the Sardar\nhad no rest. He was busy in sending men,\nammunition and provisions wherever needed.\nBut he was hopeful of his success as he\nwas aware of the growing hatred of the\npeople for the Bacha and his reign, and\nthe demoralized condition of his army.\nKabul was 20 miles to the north—a\ndistance of five hours' march. He knew it\nwas the right time to strike. After his initial\n\n158","chars":1075,"image":"https://storage.googleapis.com/adl-page-images/adl0973/00199.jpg","first_page":1,"last_page":315,"title":"Progressive Afghanistan","permalink":"https://afghanpress.org/book/adl0973/199","canvas":"https://afghanpress.org/iiif/adl0973/canvas/199","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."}}