Alexander Burnes: Cabool | Taschenbuch

Cover: 9781108075374 | Cabool | Alexander Burnes | Taschenbuch | Englisch | 2014

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Beschreibung

In the long and often disastrous history of British entanglement in Afghanistan, the name of Alexander Burnes (1805-41) deserves to be remembered. Aged sixteen, he went to India to take up a post in the army, and speedily learned both Hindustani and Persian. His skills led him to political work, and he himself proposed a covert expedition to Bukhara, to survey the country and to observe the expansionist activities of the Russians in central Asia. (Burnes' 1834 account of this journey is also reissued in this series.) In 1836, he was sent to Kabul, and became involved in the British plan to replace Dost Muhammad Khan with Shah Shuja (which he personally thought a mistake). The British became a focus of increasing local discontent, and in November 1841 Burnes was murdered in Kabul by a mob. This account of his stay in the city was published posthumously in 1842.

Inhaltsverzeichnis

Preface; 1. Objects of the mission; 2. Hunting excursion; 3. Sukkur; 4. Battle between the Afghans and Sikhs; 5. Our critical position; 6. Cross the Attock; 7. Interview with Dost Mahommed Khan; 8. Cabool; 9. The Sian-poosh kaffirs; 10. Our occupations at Cabool; 11. Russian agent, Lieutenant Vilkievitch; Appendices.

Details

Erscheinungsjahr:	2014
Genre:	Importe , Romane & Erzählungen
Rubrik:	Belletristik
Medium:	Taschenbuch
ISBN-13:	9781108075374
ISBN-10:	1108075371
Sprache:	Englisch
Einband:	Kartoniert / Broschiert
Autor:	Burnes, Alexander
Hersteller:	Cambridge University Press
Verantwortliche Person für die EU:	Libri GmbH, Europaallee 1, D-36244 Bad Hersfeld, gpsr@libri.de
Maße:	216 x 140 x 26 mm
Von/Mit:	Alexander Burnes
Erscheinungsdatum:	15.09.2014
Gewicht:	0,617 kg