{"book":"adl1197","page":160,"text":"-143-\nIn spite of the fact that according to the terms of Treaty of\n1st January 1842. A. D. ( 16th. Ziqad 1257. A. H. ) after the murder of\nMacnaughton (23rd December 1842. D.A.) it was clearly laid donw that\nwhen the English forces are withdrawn from Kabul, the other English\nunits at Kandahar and at Jalalabad shall also move out of the country\nto India. Yet General Nott and Major Rawlinson at Kandahar\nand General Sale at jalalabad instead of trying to move out of the\nplace, actually made every effort to strengthen themselves. As could\nbe seen from the English histories written at the time ( for instance:\nThe book of Field Marshal Sir Neville Chamberlain, page 102)two days\nafter the assassination of Macnaughton on 25th. December 1842 A. D.\nPottinger, the deputy of Macnaughton and Elphinstone, wrote a letter\nto Major Rawlinson at Kandahar saying that towards the end of February\nof that year he( Rawlinson) would move out. The letter was clear in\nits terms stating that the officers and English troops at Kandahar\nand Killat Ghilzai should take the shortest route to India from\nthat location. Rawlinson gave no heed to that letter, thinking\nthat the officers at Kabul had no free hand or independent opinion,\nbut were dictated to by the Afghan opinion and pressure, and awai-\nted instructions from Calcutta, so that Kandahar like Ghazni was be-\nseiged and a struggle between the people and the invaders commenced.\nThe city of Kandahar is so situated that the inhabitants of\nthe town live within the fortifications, and immediately outside the\nwalls of the city the habitations of the village and cultivatort begin.\nAs the news of the national uprising was constantly reaching\nthe city from far and near, and General Nott fearing iest the peo-\nple of Kandahar suddenly rise, gave orders that no one other than\ntraders, some divines and a few others can be allowed outside the\ncity walls or come into the city.\nThis order was given on 3rd March. 1842. A. D. There is, of\ncourse, no doubt that such an order indicated a fear on the part of\nthe military officers ane the growing feelings of the people of the city.\nThis was, however, not enough to pacify the fears of the English\nmilitary commander, for he later on sent out certain of his units\noutside the city, and marched out of Kandahar with his men\non 7th March.","chars":2325,"image":"https://storage.googleapis.com/adl-page-images/adl1197/00160.jpg","first_page":1,"last_page":205,"title":"Men and events through 18th and 19th century Afghanistan","permalink":"https://afghanpress.org/book/adl1197/160","canvas":"https://afghanpress.org/iiif/adl1197/canvas/160","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."}}