{"book":"adl1197","page":84,"text":"- 71 -\nBoth the English and the Russians had sent their envoys to Kabul:\nand in the winter of 1837. A. D. Burns came as an envoy of the En\nglish to the court of Amir Doust Mohamed Khan, and the Russian\ndetermined not to be left behind sent their envoy in the person of\none named Vakuvich.\n\nThe danger point, according to the English was just that city\nof Herat. Mr. Macneil, the English envoy in Tehran wrote a letter\nto the English governor-general in Calcutta in 1836.A.D. regarding\nthe Russio-Persian designs regarding Herat. From that date onwards\nthe statesmen of English were giving a great deal of attention to the\nconsideration of the Herat Question; and since that period it is that\nwe are introduced to such a person Major Edward Pottinger.\n\nMajor Pottinger, who belonged to the Artillery secton of Bo-\nmbay reached Afghanistan in 1836. A.D. or in the beginning of 1837,\nand after a protected stay in Kabul at the house of Nawab Jabbar\nKhan, journyed towards Herat by way of Hazarajat; where he reach-\ned in the summer of 1837. A.D. and contacted Kamran and his\npowerful minister, Yar-Mohamed Khan.\n\nThere is little doubt that the local king of Herat, Kamran,\nnoting the difficulties that faced him was in need of help. There\nwere no less than thirty to forty thousand troops of Mohamed Shah\nKachar with some Rusian volunteers, and led by Russian, Italian\nand even French officers. Pottinger, as the representative of the East\nIndia company, who were always solicitous of the defence\nproblem of India; was ready to render any help that was to be\nasked from the English. Under the instructions of the English offi-\ncer, the Saduzai ruler attended to the defence walls of Herat and\nadjusted military matters under his advice; till ultimately the tro-\nops of Mohamed Shah Kachar of Persia led by the Russian officers\nbeseiged Herat on 23rd. November of 1838. A.D. This seige lasted\nfor ten months; that is to say beginning from the winter of 1837 to\nthe spring and summer of 1838. A. D. Kamran was almost ready to\nacceed to certain points of the enemy, but his minister resited any\nsuch appeasement, and Major Pottinger gave all kinds of advice tow-\nards till the most determind attack led by the Russian general Bur-","chars":2224,"image":"https://storage.googleapis.com/adl-page-images/adl1197/00084.jpg","first_page":1,"last_page":205,"title":"Men and events through 18th and 19th century Afghanistan","permalink":"https://afghanpress.org/book/adl1197/84","canvas":"https://afghanpress.org/iiif/adl1197/canvas/84","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."}}