Seat of war in Asia, map of Afghanistan : (Record no. 41179)

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Transcribing agency ACKU
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050 00 - LIBRARY OF CONGRESS CALL NUMBER
Classification number G7630.
Item number S438 1878
245 00 - TITLE STATEMENT
Title Seat of war in Asia, map of Afghanistan :
Remainder of title from surveys made by British and Russian officers up to 1875 /
Statement of responsibility, etc published in the Office of the Chief of Engineers ; for the information of the officers of the U.S. Army.
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Statement of scale Scale : [1:2,027,520].
260 ## - PUBLICATION, DISTRIBUTION, ETC. (IMPRINT)
Place of publication, distribution, etc [Place of publication not identified] :
Name of publisher, distributor, etc United States. Army. Office of the Chief of Engineers,
Date of publication, distribution, etc 1878.
300 ## - PHYSICAL DESCRIPTION
Extent 1 map :
Dimensions 56 x 74 cm.
500 ## - GENERAL NOTE
General note “Relief shown by hachures and spot heights.Includes location map”.
General note “Seat of War in Asia. Map of Afghanistan from Surveys Made by British and Russian Officers up to 1875 : This 1878 map depicts Afghanistan and portions of Central Asia, Persia, and British India based on surveys carried out by British and Russian officers up to 1875. An inset map shows the wider Asian context and notes distances from London of the most important places. The year 1878 is significant in the history of Afghanistan in that it marked the beginning of the Second Anglo-Afghan War, launched by a British invasion on November 21, 1878. The pretext for military action was the refusal of the Afghan government to admit the British envoy, Sir Neville Chamberlain, who had been dispatched to Kabul by the orders of Lord Lytton, the governor-general of India. The Afghan ruler Sher Ali Khan (reigned 1863−66 and 1868−79) had already and with some reluctance admitted into Kabul a Russian delegation led by General Nikolai Grigorevich Stoletov. In the context of the political rivalry that existed between Russia and Great Britain over the control of Central Asia, this preference toward Russia was a slight which, from the British perspective, could not be allowed to stand unchallenged. Major fighting in the Second Anglo-Afghan War did not cease until the Battle of Kandahar in September 1880, after which Afghanistan ceded control of its foreign affairs to the British government. Compiled and printed by the Office of the Chief of Engineers of the United States Army “for the information of the officers of the U.S. Army,” the map includes along its western edge markings indicating the latitude of a number of cities in the United States to be used as reference for its North American readers”—copied from website.
General note The Library of Congress donated copies of the digitized material (along with extensive bibliographic records) containing more than 163,000 pages of documents to ACKU, the collections that include thousands of historical, cultural, and scholarly materials dating from the early 1300s to the 1990s includes books, manuscripts, maps, photographs, newspapers and periodicals related to Afghanistan in Pushto, Dari, as well as in English, French, German, Russian and other European languages ACKU has a PDF copy of the item.
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Language note English
651 #0 - SUBJECT ADDED ENTRY--GEOGRAPHIC NAME
Geographic name Afghanistan – Maps.
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Electronic format type PDF
Uniform Resource Identifier <a href="https://doi.org/10.29171/azu_acku_g7630_s438_1878">https://doi.org/10.29171/azu_acku_g7630_s438_1878</a>
Public note Scanned for ACKU.
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Source of classification or shelving scheme Library of Congress Classification
Koha item type Map
Call number prefix azu_acku_g7630_s438_1878
Holdings
Withdrawn status Lost status Source of classification or shelving scheme Damaged status Not for loan Home library Current library Date acquired Total Checkouts Full call number Barcode Date last seen Price effective from Koha item type Public note
    Library of Congress Classification     Afghanistan Centre at Kabul University Afghanistan Centre at Kabul University 29/11/2017   G7630.S438 1878 3ACKU000507524 29/11/2017 29/11/2017 Map The digital file donated from Library of Congress-World Digital Library, PDF is available in ACKU.