{"book":"adl1197","page":74,"text":"— 61 —\nIn the year 1837. A. D. when the rivalry of England and\nof Russia was all its highest over the question of Herat; and Mohamed\nShah assisted by the Russian officers beseiged the city of Herat\nfor ten months, the Vazir-Yar Mohamed Shah.showed himself equal\nto the task when in making arrangements with the English thr-\nough Potinger-who was living in disguise in Herat-and for in other\nways for the defence of the city. Nor was it all, but he also\nused some of the money that the purpose of strengthening of his\ntroops; and managed to repulse the aggressor Persians forces even\nfrom the very walls of the city of Herat.\n\nAfter 1838. A. D. when the storm was blown over in regards\nto the Persian attack against Herat, the Englih had taken Kabul\nand Kandahar in the name of Shahshuja. Later they tried to occupy\nHerat and to place the local Saduzai gevernment of Herat under\ntheir influence. As we had mentioned, Pottinger, as the represe-\nntative of the East India Company had paid a sum to Kamran\nand to his minister Yar Mohamed Khan in order to strengthen\nthe Saduzai defence forces. After the lifting of the seige Captain\nStoddard, too, joined Pottinger, so as to secure some \"consideration\"\nfor the East India Company. Yar Mohamed Khan made use of\nthe English money, but did not give the slightest point of \"cons-\nideration\" to the English either in commercial or political sense.\nThe English minster one named Macnuagton, thereupon, sent Major\nTodd to join the other two Englishmen at Herat, to persuade\nthe local Saduzai administraion with the inducement of money\nand other promises to come under the English influence. A\ntreaty of friendhsip was signed between the English and Kamran\nin 1839 A . D . between Stoddard and Kamran; but the Vazir\nYar Mohamed Khan, who was the actual power, did not sign or\nthe engagement entered into and did not give any consideration\nto the English. Yar Mohamed Khan being aware of the interest\nof both the Persians and the English in regards to the city of\nHerat tried to benefit from both sides for the good of the country;\nso that when the Persians attacked Herat, Yar Mohamed Khan\ntook the help of the English to repel the agressor; and when the\ndanger to Herat was over, and the English had taken practically\nevery part of Afghanistan except Herat. Yar Mohamed paid no","chars":2316,"image":"https://storage.googleapis.com/adl-page-images/adl1197/00074.jpg","first_page":1,"last_page":205,"title":"Men and events through 18th and 19th century Afghanistan","permalink":"https://afghanpress.org/book/adl1197/74","canvas":"https://afghanpress.org/iiif/adl1197/canvas/74","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."}}