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Excerpt from The First Afghan War
IT was in the year 1808, when the power of Napo leon was at its height, that diplomatic relations were first opened between the Courts of Calcutta and Cabul. Napoleon, when in Egypt, had meditated on the chances of striking a fatal blow at England through her Indian dependencies; some correspon dence had actually passed between him and Tippoo Saib on the subject, and subsequently, in 1801, he had concluded a treaty with the Russian Emperor Paul for an invasion of India by a force of men, to be composed of equal parts of French and Russian troops. The proposed line of march was to lie through Astrakhan and Afghanistan to the Indus, and was to be heralded by Zemaun Shah, who then ruled at Cabul, at the head of Afghans. There was but little danger indeed to be apprehended from Afghanistan alone, but Afghanis tan with Russia and France in the background was capable of proving a very troublesome enemy. In.
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