{"book":"adl1197","page":123,"text":"- 110 -\nHOW THE GATEWAY OF THE GHAZNI\nCITADEL WAS BLOWN UP.\n\nARTICLE TWENTY EIGTH\n\nOn the morning of 23rd. July 1821. A.D., when the sun had\nnot yet arisen fully, the walled city of Ghazni was shaken by an\nexplosion. The English had been busy the whole night digging a\ntunnel and blew up the Kabul gate of the city.\n\nAlso they made a great breach in the walls, so that the\ncity surrendered without expectation to the enemy within three-\nquarters of an hour. It was thought that this was effected through\nthe bravery of their troops, but the strength of a treasury is\ngreater than the strength and power of gun - powder.\n\n* * *\n\nThe first aggression of the English, which took place with the\nconnivance and help of Shahshuja Saduzi, is a fact regarding which\nseveral articles had been written in these series on several aspects\nof the case.\n\nIn this article, we desire to speak as to how unexpectedly the\nsurrender of Ghazni took place at the hands of the English.\n\nThe British troops which were moving by way of the Bolan\nPass and Khojak with Shahshuja, were put under the command of\nan English officer by the name of Sir John Kean. From the date\nof the movement of this force ( 10th. December 1838. A. D. ) from\nFirouzpoee, till it reached Kandahar on the 8th. of May 1839. A.D.,\nand Ghazni on the 21st. of July 1839. A.D. With that which befell\nthe expendition, we do not concern ourselves here.\n\nIt is a matter of common knowledge that the legal occupant\nthe Afghan throne, Amir Dost Mohamed Khan was ruling the country\nat the time, and the Government of Ghazni then was Placed under\none of his sons, Sirdar Ghulam Haider Khan.\n\nAs far as can be judged from historical records, Amir Dost\nMohamed Khan, both during his rulership as also prior to it, attached\ngreat importance to the defences of Ghazni; so that when he ultimate-\nly became the king of Afghanistan, he appointed one of his real\nbrothers, Sirdar Amir Mohamed Khan, as Governor of Ghazni. In","chars":1956,"image":"https://storage.googleapis.com/adl-page-images/adl1197/00123.jpg","first_page":1,"last_page":205,"title":"Men and events through 18th and 19th century Afghanistan","permalink":"https://afghanpress.org/book/adl1197/123","canvas":"https://afghanpress.org/iiif/adl1197/canvas/123","source":"https://afghanistandl.nyu.edu/books/adl1197/","source_pdf":"https://afghanistandl.nyu.edu/pdf/adl1197_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."}}