MAKE A MEME View Large Image Ghazni City during 1839-42.jpg Town and Citadel of Ghuznee This lithograph was taken from plate 18 of 'Afghaunistan' by Lieutenant James Rattray This sketch was made near some mosques outside the Kandahar Gate to the west side of Ghazni a ...
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Keywords: Ghazni City during 1839-42.jpg Town and Citadel of Ghuznee This lithograph was taken from plate 18 of 'Afghaunistan' by Lieutenant James Rattray This sketch was made near some mosques outside the Kandahar Gate to the west side of Ghazni a city Rattray visited several times Ghazni had enjoyed its principal moment of glory 800 years earlier when it was the capital of an empire extending from the Armenian mountains to the fertile plains of the Ganges Rattray wrote that it was now again well-known thanks to our love of territorial aggrandisement and the occasional desertion of war's fickle deity from our ranks He described riding slowly over a wide plain dotted with relics of past ages to Ghazni Interspersed with this havoc of centuries as far as the eye could reach were a succession of rich groves vineyards flower-gardens melon-beds and orchards while in the blue distance its white structures just discernable from the mountains it springs from rested Ghuzni with its bastions town and citadel On 6 September 1842 Ghazni was for a second time wrested from the Afghans by the British under General Nott On taking possession of the city the engineers were given two days to blow it up When Rattray last glimpsed it far-famed Ghazni was a heap of smoking ruins http //www bl uk/ The British Library 1839-42 Lieutenant James Rattray PD-Old PD-old-70 History of Ghazni 19th-century lithographs Afghanistan in the 19th century
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