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050	0	0	_aPamphlet DA563. _bG533 1885
100	1		_aGladstone, W. E. (William Ewart), _d1809-1898.
245	1	0	_aSoudan and Afghanistan : _bthe vote of credit : speech delivered by the Right Hon. W. E. Gladstone in the house of commons, on Monday, April 27th, 1885.
260			_a[London] : _bThe National press agency, limited, _c1885.
300			_a15 pages ; _c30 cm.
500			_a“William Ewart Gladstone (1809–98) was four times Liberal prime minister of Great Britain (1868–74, 1880–85, 1886, 1892–94). One of the major political figures of the Victorian era, he served in the Colonial Office and was three times chancellor of the Exchequer, including during the first two years of his second government. Soudan and Afghanistan. The Vote of Credit is a pamphlet containing the text of a speech that Gladstone delivered before the Committee of Supply in the House of Commons on April 27, 1885, less than a month after the Panjdeh incident between Russia and Afghanistan and three months after the fall of Khartoum to the Mahdi forces and the subsequent killing of General Charles Gordon. In the Panjdeh incident, Russian forces seized Afghan territory south of the Oxus River (today known as the Amu Darya), leading to a clash with Afghan troops and a diplomatic crisis with Great Britain, which was sensitive to Russian pressures on Afghanistan and the potential threat they posed to British India. In the speech, Gladstone requested a Vote of Credit amounting to £11,000,000, of which £6,500,000 was designated for unspecified “special preparations” to strengthen the hand of the British Empire. It was obvious from the speech that these preparations were meant to counter possible Russian threats to Afghanistan and India. The other £4,500,000 was to be spent in connection with the crisis in Sudan. Gladstone expected the Sudan money to come with a censure, for he was seen as having allowed General Gordon to go to Khartoum but having failed in the attempt to rescue him from the forces of the Mahdi. In the end, the credit was approved. The speech was published by the Liberal Central Association of Great Britain in 1885”—copied from website.
500			_aThe 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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651		0	_aGreat Britain – Foreign relations – 1837-1901 – Sources.
651		0	_aEgypt – History – British occupation, 1882-1936.
651		0	_aGreat Britain – History – Victoria, 1837-1901.
651		0	_aGreat Britain – Politics and government – 1837-1901.
856			_qPDF _uhttps://doi.org/10.29171/azu_acku_pamphlet_da563_g533_1885 _zScanned for ACKU.
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