{"book":"adl1197","page":165,"text":"-148-\nover the matter gave orders that Herat should be attacked by guns\nand a body of English troops, and as a first step, the insurrection of\nAkhtar Khan, whose territory was nearest to Kandahar should be squash-\ned. Taking this plan in view, Rawlinson, the English Political Agent\nat Kandahar, wrote to Russell in Sindh, and to the commander of\nEnglish forces, so that whatever troops were available at Sindh\nshould be sent to Kandahar, so that an expedition may be launched\ntowards the region of Dawar, Herat and various other points in the\nwestern area. But Macnaughton and Lord Auckland were divided in\ntheir opinion in regards to an expedition to Herat. Macnaughton wanted\nthat the region of Heri Rud should be brought under the rule of Shah-\nshuja atonce, whereas Lord Auckland held that first of all the English\ntroops should assume strength and mastery in the whole of Afghanistan\nafter which the Herat question should be considered. Lord Auckland\nindeed, was not even a supporter of fighting for Herat, but thought to\nsolve the problem through sending envoys to Herat.\n\nIt would be seen, therefore, that whereas the higher officials\nin Calcutta were opposed to any military expedition against Herat,\nRawlinson had the intention of launching out against Vazir Yar\nMohamed Khan, so that from Kandahar measures may be\ntaken to invade the Dawar territoy, Herat and western areas\nand to encompass it. In any case an expedition against Akhtar\nKhan was very positively in Rawlinson's mind. It was atlast\nresolved that Rawlinson's assistant, named Elliot, should proceed\ntowards Dawar. The purpose of this journey of Elliot was not\nto fight or to precipitate any sort of struggle, but by some means\nto conciliate Akhtar Khan. Elliot met Akhtar Khan, and the leader\nof Dawar was pacified through receiving some advantages from\nthe English.\n\nThis \"pacification\" had but a superficial aspect as far as\nAkhtar Khan was concerned, and Rawlinson, the English\npolitical Agent, likewise was treating the matter in the same\nlight on his part, thinking that the patch-work of cordiality was very\ntemporary. In actual practice the result was seen, for the Ghil-\nzais raised a standard of revolt against the English, and when\nthe English forces now paid closer attention towards the","chars":2272,"image":"https://storage.googleapis.com/adl-page-images/adl1197/00165.jpg","first_page":1,"last_page":205,"title":"Men and events through 18th and 19th century Afghanistan","permalink":"https://afghanpress.org/book/adl1197/165","canvas":"https://afghanpress.org/iiif/adl1197/canvas/165","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."}}