Appletons' Annual Cyclopaedia and Register of Important Events, Volume 10; Volume 25D. Appleton & Company, 1886 |
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... British Government . When , with the aid of British gifts of money and arms , Abdurrahman had established his authority at Candahar and Herat , and overcome his rival , Ayub Khan , the British Government agreed , in the summer of 1883 ...
... British Government . When , with the aid of British gifts of money and arms , Abdurrahman had established his authority at Candahar and Herat , and overcome his rival , Ayub Khan , the British Government agreed , in the summer of 1883 ...
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... British Gov- ernment eagerly grasped the opportunity af- forded by the hitherto neglected proposal of the Russian ministry to fix the three hundred or more miles of boundary left unsettled in the line of Russia's recent advances , which ...
... British Gov- ernment eagerly grasped the opportunity af- forded by the hitherto neglected proposal of the Russian ministry to fix the three hundred or more miles of boundary left unsettled in the line of Russia's recent advances , which ...
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... British commissioners from Old Sarakhs , which was occupied in July , 1884 , to Pul - i- Khatum in October and November , and on the Murghab from Merv , where a garrison was posted , in February , to Yolatan , at the edge of the oasis ...
... British commissioners from Old Sarakhs , which was occupied in July , 1884 , to Pul - i- Khatum in October and November , and on the Murghab from Merv , where a garrison was posted , in February , to Yolatan , at the edge of the oasis ...
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... British Commission in the Herat valley , thus empha- sizing the claim presented diplomatically in the negotiations with the London Government , opened by M. de Giers . In a parley with the Afghan commander at Penjdeh , he used threat ...
... British Commission in the Herat valley , thus empha- sizing the claim presented diplomatically in the negotiations with the London Government , opened by M. de Giers . In a parley with the Afghan commander at Penjdeh , he used threat ...
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... British boundary commissioners , who expected war to be declared every instant , found their occupation gone when boundary negotiations were renewed in London , May 4 . Sir Peter Lumsden was recalled to London , and the main body of the ...
... British boundary commissioners , who expected war to be declared every instant , found their occupation gone when boundary negotiations were renewed in London , May 4 . Sir Peter Lumsden was recalled to London , and the main body of the ...
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