{"book":"adl1197","page":50,"text":"37\n\nwho had been sent out to capture Peshawar from Gulistan Khan-the\ngovernor appointed there by Shahshuja-had taken that city in the na-\nme of prince Qaisar. The fall of Peshawar induced Shahshuja to\nmarch from Shikarpour to Dera Ghazi Khan: but as soon as his\nback was turned, Fateh Khan and his brother again overthrew the\nallegience of Shahshuja and returned to Kandahar. Some have it\nthat in this fresh discord, the hand of Shair Mohamed Khan was\nalso operative; who is said to have written to these Sirdars to de-\nsert their master and friend Shahshuja. News of this greatly distur-\nbed the king, and without further recourse in this matter, he moved\non to Kohat, with all possible speed. From there he reached a\nvillage named Mutaiz-some ten miles from Peshawar in the Mah-\nmand area. Khaja Mohamed Khan and Yahya Khan Bamyazai, who\nit might be recollected were sent by Shair Mohamed Khan and\nprince Qaiser to evict Gulsitan Khan from Peshawar, could not face\nShahshuja in battle; so that Shahshuja once again took Peshawar\nin the year 1806 A. D. and the two commanders of Shair Mohamed\nKhan beat a retreat to Kabul. The time was when the former Vazir\nof Shahshuja accompained by prince Qaisar having left Kabul was\nnearing Peshawar. They were about to enter Peshawar near Shuqa-\ndar, - town near the confluence of the two rivers-when Khaja\nMohamed Khan and Yahya Khan joined them. Some historians have\nstated that near Tahkal, not far from Pashawar, the twelve thousand\ntroops of Shair Mohamed Khan faced the forces of Shahshuja on the\n3 rd. of March 1808. and it was possible that the forces of Shashuja\nmay be repulsed; but the King's Guards stuck to their guns, and\nShair Mohamed Khan fell. His brother Haji Pir Mohamed Khan was\ntaken prisoner, and was killed by the command of the king. Khaja\nMohamed Khan, too, was slain in this engagement, so that the\napparent defeat of Shahshuja was transfered into victory. Prince\nQaiser, having lost his helpers of the Bamizais, fled towards\nKabul, and Shahshuja enterd Peshawar in triumph. As he entered\nthe city, troopers showed the severed head of the slain vazir\nShair Mohamed Khan-Shair Mohamed Khan, the Minister of Ministers\nof the king at one time-who enoyed the prestige second to none\nat the court of the one against whom he revolted and was\nultimately slain.","chars":2320,"image":"https://storage.googleapis.com/adl-page-images/adl1197/00050.jpg","first_page":1,"last_page":205,"title":"Men and events through 18th and 19th century Afghanistan","permalink":"https://afghanpress.org/book/adl1197/50","canvas":"https://afghanpress.org/iiif/adl1197/canvas/50","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."}}