Afghan Wars eBook

Whilst the greatest effort has been made to ensure the quality of this text, due to the historical nature of this content, in some rare cases there may be minor issues with legibility. Since it was the British complications with Persia which mainly furnished what pretext there was for the invasion of Afghanistan by an anglo-indian army in 1839, some brief recital is necessary of the relations between Great Britain and Persia prior to that aggression.