Return of a King by William Dalrymple

Author:William Dalrymple [Dalrymple, William]
Language: eng
Format: epub, mobi, azw3
Tags: General, Military, Modern, History, Middle East, Great Britain, Asia, Europe, 19th Century, Other, (¯`'•.¸//(*_*)\\¸.•'´¯), Afghan War (2001-), Central Asia
ISBN: 9780307958280
Publisher: Knopf
Published: 2013-04-15T14:00:00+00:00

As he left, Broadfoot told the General about his own anxieties: he had tried to get the smiths and armourers in the city to manufacture some mining tools to be used in the siege of the Ghilzai forts, but they had all ‘refused to work for the Firangis as they were busy forging arms, for what purpose we have since learned, though Burnes said it was for the wandering tribes about to migrate’.62

Macnaghten, meanwhile, had been characteristically unfazed by the departure of his army commander, by the intelligence of intense arms manufacture in the bazaars or even by the angry exit of the Ghilzai chiefs, writing to Auckland that they were simply ‘kicking up a row about some deductions which have been made from their pay’ and would be ‘well trounced for their pains . . . These fellows will require many a hiding yet,’ he wrote, ‘before they settle down into peaceable citizens.’63

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