Papers relating to military operations in Afghanistan : (Record no. 41605)

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Transcribing agency ACKU
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Classification number DS363.
Item number P374 1843
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Title Papers relating to military operations in Afghanistan :
Remainder of title presented to both Houses of Parliament, by command of Her Majesty.
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Place of publication, distribution, etc London :
Name of publisher, distributor, etc T. R. Harrison,
Date of publication, distribution, etc 1843.
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Extent [33] unnumbered pages, viii, 431 pages ;
Dimensions 30 cm.
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General note “Papers Relating to Military Operations in Afghanistan is a compilation of official documents relating to the conduct of British forces during a part of the First Anglo-Afghan War (1839–42). It contains the texts of 547 letters, dispatches, reports, memoranda, general orders, and other documents from the period between October 1841 and December 1842. The authors of the documents include Lord Auckland, governor-general of India, Major General George Pollock, commander of the relief column sent to try to rescue the Anglo-British force that was decimated by Afghan tribesmen in the retreat from Kabul in January 1842, Major General William Nott, who defeated an Afghan force at Ghazni in August 1842, and many lower ranking military officers and civilian officials. Among the more arresting documents in the compilation is number 132, a dispatch dated February 19, 1842, in which the governor-general reports to the Secret Committee of the East India Company in London on the disaster of the previous month. The report begins by stating that “we have to deplore the occurrence of heavy calamity to the British arms, and at the same time lament the great obscurity which still hangs over many of the most important circumstances connected with the causes and course of the disasters which have been suffered.” Other documents provide further details about the scale of the defeat, the measures undertaken by Auckland and his subordinates to recoup the situation by sending reinforcements, and their decision ultimately to withdraw all British forces from Afghanistan”—copied from website.
General note “Presented to both houses of parliament, by Command of her Majesty”—title page.
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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Linkage Includes bibliographical references.
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Language note English
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Topical term or geographic name as entry element Afghan Wars.
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Geographic name Afghanistan – History.
Geographic name Afghanistan – Kings and rulers – Biography.
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Electronic format type PDF
Uniform Resource Identifier <a href="https://doi.org/10.29171/azu_acku_ds363_p374_1843 ">https://doi.org/10.29171/azu_acku_ds363_p374_1843 </a>
Public note Scanned for ACKU.
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Source of classification or shelving scheme Library of Congress Classification
Koha item type Monograph
Call number prefix azu_acku_ds363_p374_1843
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    Library of Congress Classification     Afghanistan Centre at Kabul University Afghanistan Centre at Kabul University 23/01/2018   DS363.P374 1843 3ACKU000505569 23/01/2018 23/01/2018 Monograph The digital file donated from Library of Congress-World Digital Library, PDF is available in ACKU.