{"book":"adl1197","page":145,"text":"- 130 -\nnot be forgotten. The warriors killed, on the outburst of\nthat war, and during the ultimate settlement, some of the\nrun-away and fleeing officers of the English between Kabul\nand Gharikar. After that large numbers of them took part\nin battles-many thousands of them-at Shairpore, and on the\nhights of Bibi Maro. General Pollock, in order to take revenge\nfrom those men, set fire to the beautiful village of Istalif\nthrough Mecastle in 1842. A. D. In place of avenging himself\nupon the fighters, he burned down the innocent walls and\ndoors of a village.\n\nTowards the fourth year of the English occupation of\nAfghanistan a great movement for national independence was launched\non 2nd November 1841. A. D. which fought the imperialist designs\nof the aggressors. From that date onwards the great movement\ngrew in tempo, with the result that fighting took place at such\nscattered places as the hillside of Bibi Maro, Shairore, in the\nheart of the city of Kabul, in the neighbourhood of Charikar,\nWardak, Khurd Kabul and Ghazni, till at last a treaty was\nsigned between the leaders of the nation and the English in the\nwinter of 1842. A. D. and the capital of the Afghan kingdom\nwas evacuated. Unfortunately, as was anticipated in the terms of\nthe treaty, the whole of Afghanistan was not evacuated with\nthe removal of the English forces from Kabul. At two important\nAfghan towns, Jalalabad and Kandahar the forces of the English\ncontinued under Generals Sale and Nott. They gave verbal promises\nand still continued to make endeavours to strengthen their military\nposition as soon as a relief force arrived from India to help them.\nDuring the course of this time, Shahshuja was assassinated and his\nson Fateh Jung sat on the throne at Bala Hisar. But the hope\nof getting the throne for themselves, and the struggle for personal\ngain that had entered into the minds of many leaders at the\ntime, began to weaken the national resistance, and the action which\nhad sprung up with such good promise and hope, and had\nexpressed itself for the benefit of the country, began to deteriorate\nwith the result that disturbances arose, that the beseiged English","chars":2149,"image":"https://storage.googleapis.com/adl-page-images/adl1197/00145.jpg","first_page":1,"last_page":205,"title":"Men and events through 18th and 19th century Afghanistan","permalink":"https://afghanpress.org/book/adl1197/145","canvas":"https://afghanpress.org/iiif/adl1197/canvas/145","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."}}