{"book":"adl1197","page":161,"text":"—144—\nIN his notes ragarding this dicision Neville Chamberlain writes\n\"Although within ten miles of our camp we considered ourselves safe,\nyet towards dusk a large number of horsemen appeared on our left\nflanks, our cavalry faced them and our guns fired upon them, but\nno fighting took place, and we returned to our camp. On the 8th of\nMarch, a group of three or four thousand horsemen made their\nappearance towards our left at dawn, our cavalry, twelve of our guns\nand infantry went out to meet them. We drove them back to about\neight miles with fire and guns, but suddenly they attacked us and\nour guns, and they had advanced to about 150 or 200 paces when our\nintense fire was directed towards them and the most gallant\namongst them fell to our fire, and the remaining retired over the\nriver. Bisides the wounded about forty were killed.\n\nOn the 9th of March, in the afternoon we moved towards Tulo\nKhan. When we were crossing the hill on the way, some men fired\nat our General, but a defending unit ran up the hill atonce and 40\npatriots were killed. A few miles away we were able to see through\nthe binoculars that a group of about three to four thousand fighting\nmen were converging towards Kandahar but no fighting took place.\nWe returned from Tolu Khan at night and there was some sniping\non the way...\"\n\nAccording to the English themselves, groups of Ghazis, several\nthousand strong, were hovering near the city for an opportunity to\nattack the English forces, or the invading troops occupying the city\nof Kandahar. On 10th March large numbers of Ghazis mustered in\nthe gardens and surrounded the town of Kandahar. Their target this\ntime was the city. It is related that an old man named Baba Ra-\nkhari riding a donkey actually betook himself as close to the walls\nof the city as the Herat Gate of Kandahar, and sought permission\nto enter the city. As he did not receive permission he unloaded his\ndonkey and put his burden consisting of thorny bushes at the\ngateway. Some of the Ghazis, finding the opportunity, sprinkled some\noil on the dry load and set the mass alight. Its fire spread on to\nthe woodwork of the gateway, which caught fire. In the leaping\nflames of the gateway, the English forces saw that the Ghazis were\nattacking the gateway fiercely. The commander of the English","chars":2294,"image":"https://storage.googleapis.com/adl-page-images/adl1197/00161.jpg","first_page":1,"last_page":205,"title":"Men and events through 18th and 19th century Afghanistan","permalink":"https://afghanpress.org/book/adl1197/161","canvas":"https://afghanpress.org/iiif/adl1197/canvas/161","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."}}