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141 THE BEGINNING OF GENERAL UPRISING AGAINST THE ENGLISH IN KANDAHAR ARTICLE THIRTY SEVENTH The well-known national movement at Kabul, which started with the burning of the house of Burnes and of his assassination spread with the utmost rapidity through out the country. The various aspects of this movement as regards such localities as Kabul, Charikar, and Ghazni have been detailed to a considerable extent, but this is the first article which contrives to reveal those national activities which were directed against General Nott at Kandahar. During this natoinal demonstration a large number of people collected around the city of Kandahar, and by setting fire to the gate of Herat at Kandahar on the night of loth March 1842, started to attack the English. The great anti-English national demonstration of Kabul, which started with the burning of the house of Burnes and his assassina tion on Thursday 2nd of November 1841.A.D. (17th. Ramazan 1157. A.H.) is one of the important dates in the history of Afghanisan, which ought to called the Day of National Uprising against the for eign occupation of the Country. This uprising was in very possible way a national uprising: because by the movement the nation was united against the foreigner and a king who was the protector of the foreign powers occuping the country : and that by the command of the real leaders of the nation, the people rose in a body against the enemies of the country. The movement at Kabul which resul ted in a conflict between the people and the army, and the peeple won the day completely, the whole movement spread like lightening in and around Kabul, so that first within six miles, then to a dis tant of 12 miles, and later further it moved rapidly to Maidan, Wardak, Logar, and upto Ghazni, finally reached Kandahar.