The Dark Defile
“Some suggest that the emir of Bokhara, bowing to pressure from other local rulers who believed Dost Mohammed the only leader capable of organizing resistance to the infidel British, allowed him to escape. However, Nasrullah was not a man given to rational decisions nor to being told what to do by other people. More likely, Dost Mohammed engineered his escape after first negotiating the release of Akbar Khan and another of his sons who had gone with him to Bokhara.Whatever really happened, as Su...rgeon Atkinson noted, news of Dost Mohammed’s escape “produced a deep sensation throughout Afghanistan, revived the spirit of the rebellious, and gave a new stimulus to our military operations against the anticipated movements of the restless Emir,” who now declared “his object to be a holy war, a crusade against the infidels,” and began recruiting troops paid for by taxes and customs dues that he began levying on caravans heading north from Kabul. Macnaghten and Burnes learned what had occurred on 17 July.MoreLess
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