{"book":"adl1197","page":135,"text":"— 122 —\nkilled at the hands of the patriots, the reaction from Shairpore\nand Bala Hisar, and Abdullah Khan Achakzis, battle and his\nbeing wounded and ultimate martyrdom ; yet fuller details are\nstill obscure regarding his military progress. the real events\nculminating, in his death his a tion's real appraisal from the point of\nview of national urge and significance. If Abdullah Khan Achakzi is not\nthe only warrior of that arena, he is most decidedly the bravest of\nthose who prepared the nation for its release from foreign yoke, and\nthe one who prompted the peole of his country into awareness of\nnational independence, so that his name should be placed upon\nthe records of all those national movements for the regeneration of\nthe Afghans which Afghanistan saw during her struggles for independ-\nence, and that his name should be one of the first ones on the rolls.\n\nAbdullah Khan Achakzai is the first man who led the national\nmovement on the second of November in 1841. A. D. It was he also\narranged the meeting at his house, where through his persuation\nand goading that the nation realised her position under the thraldom\nof the English and Shahshuja, and it was through his efforts, and by his\npower of language and personal example that led his countrymen to rise\nand claim that which belonged to Afghanistan. Inspite of the fact that\nhe had no more than three companions, they proceeded to the house\nof Alexander Burnes, and after that fall of the Englishmen, from the\nsecond November till the 11th November 1841 A.D. (17th to 27th of\nRamazan 1257. A.H.) he led the national movement. He and his com-\npanions had no fear of the gun and the rifle, so that as an officer of the\nnational forces, as a commander of the peoples' forces and as a\nnational hero he battled with the mighty forces of Shairpore and\nof the guns of the enemy every where, so that on the eleventh of Novem-\nber his causin fell to the bullet of the enemies of the Afghans, and\nhe himself was wounded during the advance. But he had\nvindicated the honour of his people, for those plans which only ten\ndays ago were evolved in the privacy of his rooms, were made effective\nby the sound and the use of gun and rifle. His words were not\nempty words. They had a meaning, action was born from them, as\nthe result of which he was wounded and lay in his bed and finally\ndied and received the highest honour of martyrdom. But not till he\nhad carried forward the idea and view point of the patriotism of","chars":2473,"image":"https://storage.googleapis.com/adl-page-images/adl1197/00135.jpg","first_page":1,"last_page":205,"title":"Men and events through 18th and 19th century Afghanistan","permalink":"https://afghanpress.org/book/adl1197/135","canvas":"https://afghanpress.org/iiif/adl1197/canvas/135","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."}}