{"book":"adl1197","page":140,"text":"-127-\n\nIndiawards. Clause number ten of this Treaty, too, had undertaken\nthat the English would leave military officers as hostages at Kabul,\ntill the matter of the return of Amir Dost Mohamed Khan and his\nrelatives from India to Afghanistan could be settled at Peshawar. In\naccordance to this latter clause, the English left seven of their offi-\ncers at Kabul, namely Durrand, Walsh, Warburton, Webb, Conolly,\nAvery and Anderson. These hostages were detained in the house of\nNawab Mohamed Zaman Khan.\n\nWhen the English troops left Kobul, and the Jalalabad contin-\ngent did not move out according to the treaty, Sirdar Mohamed Ak-\nbar Khan, who was moving behind the English retreating lines-for\nthe protection of the English-noticing the departure from their writ-\nten-pledge, drew the attention of the English officers to this fact.\nBut unfortunately no practical steps were taken by the English. The\nEnglish intention seemed to be that the two contingents-one from\nKabul and the one at Jalalabad-should be united, while persistent\nreports showed that General Sale's column was being strengthened at\nJalalabad. The lack of fulfilment of the English promise, and the\ndanger which lurked behind it, compelled Sirdar Mohamed Akber\nKhan to detain the English forces on their way to Jalalabad in the\ndepth of winter. More hostages also were demanded from them\nbecause no action had been taken by the Jalalabad column to move\nout of that city prior to the arrival of the Elphinstone force from\nKabul. On one occasion, three officers, and on the second occ-\nasion they had to give seven military officers, ten women and\ntwentytwo children as hostages. The reason for giving women and\nchildren as hostages was that as such they could be protected by the\nhospitality of the Sirder and would thus escape the rigour of winter\nand camping difficulties in the snow. Amongst these women\nLady Menaughton the widow of the dead Menaughton and Lady Sale,\nthe wife of the English commander at Jalalabad, were also included.\nIn the ranks of the high military officers were General Elphinstone,\nGeneral Aiyer and Pottinger were included, the last named being the\nsignitory of the Treaty under review.\n\nWhen at last it was quite apparent that Ceneral Sale had no\nintention of moving out of Jalallabad, and was determined to fight it","chars":2312,"image":"https://storage.googleapis.com/adl-page-images/adl1197/00140.jpg","first_page":1,"last_page":205,"title":"Men and events through 18th and 19th century Afghanistan","permalink":"https://afghanpress.org/book/adl1197/140","canvas":"https://afghanpress.org/iiif/adl1197/canvas/140","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."}}