{"book":"adl1197","page":130,"text":"- 117 -\n\nThe morning of 23rd. July found Ghazni in pools of blood,\nand inside the city hell was let loose, for from every housetop\nfire rained upon the attackers; every street coner was the danger\nsignal; every turn of the narrow passage was a battle field.\nWhatever booty was secured was heaped along the Kabul gate along\nthe mounds of the slain Afghan warriors; whosever entered a house\nfor loot, did not emerge alive from that house; both inside and\noutside neither party could keep any control, pandemonium reigned\neverywhere. The above mentioned narrator adds that about one\nthounsand and five hundred riderless horses galloped about,\nand even fought amongst themselves. To step into the street was\nto court positive death. The English writer, who took part in\nthe battle says that he had seen so much cruelty, and disregard\nfor human life that he disliked human behaviour, and that he\nabhorerd humanity itself. Ghulam Haider Khan, the son of Amir\nDost Mohamed Khan-a young man of twentytwo years of age-the\ngovernor and defender of the city was taken prisoner with his\nsix companions by Captain Taylor.\n\nOn the 24th of July the dead were buried, and two hundred\nwounded and dead horses, too, were put under the sod. In the\nafternoon the silence of death reigned supreme in the fair city\nof Ghazni, doors were torn off their hinges, houses were demolished,\nthe streets were deserted, and it looked that it was not a city of\nthe living. Upon this silence sat the bloody regime of Shahshuja\nunder the banner and protection of the English, and from one of\nthe towers of the citadel flurted the ensign of the invaders.\n\n* * *\n\nTHE VICTORY OF GHAZNI.\n\n(An extract of a passage from TUHFATUL HABIB, Vol,2-page 168.)\n\" . . . . Shahshuja after the lapse of three months and\nsettling the Kandahar affairs and of its environs entrusted the\nregion to an Englishman named Leech and the Prince Fateh Jung, and\naccompanied by other English officers started on an expedition","chars":1964,"image":"https://storage.googleapis.com/adl-page-images/adl1197/00130.jpg","first_page":1,"last_page":205,"title":"Men and events through 18th and 19th century Afghanistan","permalink":"https://afghanpress.org/book/adl1197/130","canvas":"https://afghanpress.org/iiif/adl1197/canvas/130","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."}}