The Oxus and the IndusLondon, 1874 - 105 頁 |
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affairs Afghan Afghan Government Afghan territory Afzul Khan Ameer Dost Mohammed Ameer of Afghanistan Ameer Sher Amoo army authority Azim Khan Balkh Bezotees Bokhara border British Government British influence brother Calcutta Calcutta Foreign Office Central Asia Colonel dated December districts Dost Mahommed Khan Dost Mohammed's death Edinburgh Review Empire English expedition favour force Fortnightly Review friendly Gholam Hyder Government of India Governor-General heir Herat Hill tribes hostile Ibid Imperial Indus January Khan's Khiva Khyber Koondooz Koorum Lahore late Lawrence's Letters and Journals Lord Elgin Lord Mayo Mahomed Khail March ment military Momund mountain navigable nomination North-West Frontier Oxus Pass peace Peshawur political position possession Prince Punjaub Punjaub Report raids recognised rival river rule Ruler of Afghanistan Russia says Shah Sher Ali Khan Sher Ali's side Sir John Lawrence Sitana fanatics succession successor Swat tion Treaty of 1855 troops village Walee of Cabul Waziris Wyllie
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第 26 頁 - ... the actual rulers of Afghanistan. If your Highness is able to consolidate your Highness's power in Cabul, and is sincerely desirous of being a friend and ally of the British Government, I shall be ready to accept your Highness as such ; but I cannot break the existing engagements with...
第 69 頁 - ... year, for a new treaty with the Khan of Khiva himself, whereby it was decided to annex to the Russian dominions a certain portion of territory between the Amoo and Sir Darya rivers, and to erect a line of fortifications on the right bank of the last-named stream. Not only this, but the Khan declared himself " the obedient servant of the Emperor of all the Russias," and renounced all right of making wars or treaties save with Russian sanction.
第 68 頁 - Ali, in order to induce him to maintain a peaceful attitude, as well as to insist on his giving up all measures of aggression or further conquest.
第 98 頁 - Khan, Walee of Cabul and of those countries of Afghanistan now in his possession, engages, on his own part and on the part of his heirs, to respect the territories of the Honourable East India Company...
第 26 頁 - My friend ! the relations of this Government are with the actual rulers of Afghanistan. If your Highness is able to consolidate your Highness's power in Cabul, and is sincerely desirous of being a friend and ally of the British Government, I shall be ready to accept your Highness as such...
第 27 頁 - My friend! The British Government has hitherto maintained a strict neutrality between the contending parties in Afghanistan. Rumours, I am told, have reached the Cabul Durbar of assistance having been granted by me to Ameer Shere Ali Khan. I take this opportunity to request your Highness not to believe such idle tales. Neither men, nor arms, nor money, nor assistance of any kind, have ever been supplied by my Government to Ameer Shere Ali Khan.
第 79 頁 - Government have repeated, and will continue to repeat, as opportunity may offer, advice in the same sense as that which they have hitherto given to the Ameer of Afghanistan, but it is not unnatural that that Ruler should feel and express some uneasiness at the rapid advance of Russian power towards his frontier.
第 102 頁 - The commercial war,' it said, ' already being waged between England and Russia, on the northern frontiers of Afghanistan, is not at all unlikely to give way some day to a combat with more sanguinary weapons than weights and measures.
第 27 頁 - Khan. Your Highness and he, both equally unaided by me, have fought out the battle, each upon your own resources. I purpose to continue the same policy for the future.
第 83 頁 - ... remitted to the central authority only so much balance as he thought it unsafe to withhold. Similarly the army had been nothing more than an assembly of the contingents which, on sound of war, the heads of the various clans severally brought to the royal camp. These federal and feudal arrangements Shere Ali endeavoured to replace by a system of monarchical centralisation. He wanted a standing army of his own ; and, still more, he wanted local treasuries of his own, so that the taxes might reach...