Found inside – Page 27... Valley and onward towards Quetta and Kandahar , and for this purpose large quantities of material and stock were ordered out from England . The works between Sibi and Sharigh , a distance of 70 miles , were being prosecuted with vigour ... Found inside – Page 3... Quetta to Kandahar , a distance of 145 miles in five daysin the scorching heat of June 1878 , played a heroic part in the siege of Kandahar . The 25th Regiment Bombay Infantry ( s RAJ RIF ) during this campaign was a part of the Division ... Found inside – Page 180Moving from the Afghan border to Kandahar, three hours' driving distance, ... from Quetta to Kandahar, just a few weeks before we traveled the same road. Found inside – Page 70... Mullah Omar's Quetta Shura based in or near the city of Quetta in north - western Pakistan , a short distance from the border with the Kandahar province ... Found inside – Page 383The distance to be covered , no matter which line is selected , is very great . Peshawur to Cabul ... 194 miles . Thull viâ Kurrum to Cabul 225 Bunnu via Khost to Gbuzoi 150 Shikarpur to Quetta 227 Shikarpur to Kandahar Quetta to Kandahar ... Found inside – Page 383... south a variety of routes converge on Quetta , whence again they diverge , and áfrer crossing the Kojak range , unite at Kandahar . The distance to be covered , no matter which line is selected , is very great . Peshawur to Cabul ... 194 miles . Found inside – Page 48is about 150 miles , while on to Kandahar the distance is nearly 200. ... Sir John Keane's army in 1833 took twenty - three days covering the distance between Quetta and Kandahar , and the further march to Ghuzni occupied twenty - four more ... Found inside – Page xlixWaller Ashe. dominion , and is one of the roads to Kandahar , a brief description of the road between Jacobabad and Quetta will suffice . ... At some places they open out to the distance of nearly a mile , at others they close to within fifty yards . Found insideWe left Quetta on our first march out to Kandahar at 4 to 6 a.m., having, I am sorry to say, ... Metarzai and Dina-Kharez (distance 12 miles) is, as usual, ... Found inside – Page 124The distance from Quetta to Kandahar, 147 miles, took 20 days. Three days were needed to cross the Khojak Pass-guns and wagons had to be dragged up by hand ... Found inside – Page 102It was natural that Quetta should be thought of first , for Quetta is within as short a striking distance of Kandahar as is Kuram of Kabul , How to Relieve Kandahar while Kabul is fully three hundred. 1 “ In Sir Donald Stewart's hands , and with ... Found inside – Page 118The distance between Quetta and Kandahar is about 125 miles via the well-traversed Chaman border crossing. Since the 1980s, the suburbs of Quetta had hosted ... Found insideBy Herat and Kandahar the distance to Quetta is 650 miles. These distances, coupled with what has been said about the country, will serve to show the ... Found inside – Page 298... distance is, but the Subadar estimates it at a total of 609 miles, which was covered in forty-one marches of which they made ten from Quetta to Kandahar ... Found inside... would be occupied first, and then from Quetta toward Kandahar would follow. ... toward Kabul via Khyber, which had a shorter distance than Kandahar. Found inside – Page 212to Kandahar . The distances from Quetta are much about the same . The Gwaja has been abandoned , and the Khojak has now been improved by the construction of Wells ' road under the Public Works Department . Wells ' road has cost 4,000 ... Found inside – Page 106When the Government some years ago decided upon our evacuating Kandahar , a considerable murinur arose both here ... The distance from Quetta is a little over one hundred miles , which we accomplished in three days , riding about thirty ... Found inside – Page 743The Quetta troops ( with the exception of those from Dera Ghazi Khan and Rajanpur ) would reach Kandahar on the sixth ... The strength of the Ghazni column will , it is concluded , be made up of the troops already within marching distance of ... Found inside – Page 379In the distance you can see trees again , which is a great relief , and the wild thyme which grows here is very pleasant to ... of September that we marched into Quetta ; nothing was known there at that time of Roberts ' great victory at Kandahar ... Found inside – Page 29... through the heart of the country are practically confined to the line Quetta - Kandahar - Herat and PeshawarKabul with a ... Routes from Russian territory through Badakshan and Wakhan 62 and 13 Long distances are usually given in the ... Found inside – Page 407On the road between Quetta in Pakistan and Kandahar, a distance of only 130 kilometres, 20 different groups put ... Found inside – Page 236Cotton further precautions against any rising in and about sent a force from Kabul to meet Nott , and Kandahar . ... In July Nott left Captain Woodburn with and others advanced within a short distance a small force at Húlan Robart , and himself of Kandahar . ... After a march of defences of Kandahar and Quetta in as good four hours over a rough country he came in a state as he could ; and on 9 Sept. , in ... Found inside – Page 121In the south, at Quetta near the frontier in what is now Pakistan, another relief force was being hastily assembled. Kandahar was half the distance from ... Found inside – Page 267... from Kandahar , from Lahore or Quetta , for as many shillings or rupees . ... The total distance to be covered was 7,500 miles , and existing European ... Found inside – Page 577The distance from by the Herat - Kandahar route ; Quetta to Nushki is only eighty and Herat has been held to be miles , out of a total of nearly the key of India . Writing in 500 to the Seistan frontier . 1875 , before the occupation of But this is the ... Found inside – Page 207Captain Beavan , who had a shorter distance to travel , arrived first and joined General Biddulph's column . ... Bolan Pass to within a short distance of Quetta , and from Quetta to Kandahar viâ Gulistan Karez , the Khojak Pass , and Chaman . Found inside – Page lviiiFrom Shalkot , or Quetta , to Kandahar by the Khojak pass . No. NAMES OF PLACES . Distance , miles . REMARKS . From Shalkot to | 11 ) The Katchlak pass 7 miles from Katchlak , Shalkot ( Quetta ) . Haidarzai ( 5,258 feet 10 Bad Nulas to ... Found inside – Page lviiiFrom Shalkot , or Quetta , to Kandahar by the Khojak pass . No. NAMES OF PLACES . Distance , ' miles . REMARKS . From Shalkot to 11 : The Katchlak pass 7 miles from Katchlak , Shalkot ( Quetta ) . Haidarzai ( 5,258 feet 10 Bad Nulas to ... Found inside – Page 255A train was run through from Sibi to Quetta , over the now railway , ' in five hours , the distance being 874 miles ; and the ... 627 Between Chaman and Kandahar , a distance of some 75 miles , the country being easy and undulating , the rails ... Found inside – Page 108... from Quetta on the 12th of August, had stated that he hoped to be in Kandahar on ... here the Field Force arrived on the 23rd, the distance from Ghazni, ... Found inside – Page 346... at a distance of only sixty miles from Kandahar . This section is connected with the Indus valley in its more northerly portion by excellent military roads , the principal being that from Dera Ghazi Khan through Thal Chotiali to Quetta , a distance ... Found inside – Page 124The distance from Quetta to Kandahar, 147 miles, took 20 days. Three days were needed to cross the Khojak Pass — guns and wagons had to be dragged up by ... Found inside – Page 158Why the authorities did not at once end of London , they were always ready , and without move us on to Kandahar is difficult to imagine . ... or other game could be found . invalids much more than a corps of English sol A few marches after leaving Quetta , our force had ... the distance between the On our last day's march into Kandahar we were two places was divided into numerous short marches met ... Found inside – Page 577The distance from by the Herat - Kandahar route ; Quetta to Nushki is only eighty and Herat has been held to be miles , out of a total of nearly the key of India . Writing in 500 to the Seistan frontier . 1875 , before the occupation of But this is the ... Found inside – Page 692The from the Russian side must obviously be Kabul and conclusions we may fairly draw are that on this Kandahar . ... advancing army continued from Kandahar , Russians would be able to assemble a large force , by the Khojak Pass , upon Quetta ... The distance by road down to the Indus plains , and in an unfortunate position from the Oxus crossing to Kabul is between 350 and for an attack on India . Found inside – Page 378... Jim Hays and Fred Koerner awaiting us at the airport . A good feeling to be among friends again . Quetta is just a dot on the map . As soon as we could get our baggage unloaded , we took off via cars for Kandahar , Afghanistan , a distance ... Found inside – Page 288Its waters Kandahar , via Route 130 219 are very salt at Hykulzie , where it is 50 feet deep ; 359 1 but in April it is only 8 yds . wide , and 2 feet deep . ... the road becomes DISTANCE 3855 MILES . extremely good ; pass Noorzai , Moleeka , Igreska , Distances soon after which we reach ... Khan to Sangad 20 0 proceed to ş Hydurzye , 14 , ( Route 116 ) , and then , Fort Roh 6 sia Route 116 , to § Quetta , 21. Found inside – Page 106... and that General Phayre , writing from Quetta on the 12th of August , had stated that he hoped to be in Kandahar on the ... here the Field Force arrived on the 23rd , the distance from Ghazni , one hundred and thirty - four miles , having been ... Found inside – Page 106When the Government some years ago decided upon our evacuating Kandahar , a considerable murmur arose both here ... The distance from Quetta is a little over one hundred miles , which we accomplished in three days , riding about thirty ... Found inside – Page 346... at a distance of only sixty miles from Kandahar . This section is connected with the Indus valley in its more northerly portion by excellent military roads , the principal being that from Dera Ghazi Khan through Thal Chotiali to Quetta , a distance ... Found inside – Page 207Captain Beavan , who had a shorter distance to travel , arrived first and joined General Biddulph's column . ... Bolan Pass to within a short distance of Quetta , and from Quetta to Kandahar via Gulistan Karez , the Khojak Pass , and Chaman . Found inside – Page 482The distance to Kandahar , the Quetta was occupied by British Gandhára of ancient India and the troops in the first expedition in 1838 - Arachosia of Alexander , is about 1842 to Kabul . By the Treaty of 65 m . Special passes are needed to ... Found inside – Page 40Distances . ance , Frontier Nadir Shah . ... Cost of the 1,000 yards , and surrounded by a wall of 30 feet in height “ there is the cost of holding Kandahar . ... Peshawur , Jacobabad , Quetta , could school , that the road from Kandahar to Herat ... Found inside – Page 203... in southern Afghanistan had been steadily shifting in favor of the mujahidin, and this was reflected in the traveling distance from Quetta to Kandahar. Found inside – Page 300If Herat were stored at Pishin sufficient to carry the line to attacked our troops would immediately occupy Kandahar should occasion require . The distance Kandahar and Jalalabad , if not Kabul itself ; and from Quetta to Kandahar is one ... Found inside – Page 681Cotton further precautions against any rising in and about sent a force from Kabul to meet Nott , and Kandahar . ... 1842 Safter Jang , Atta Muhammad , In July Nott left Captain Woodburn with and others advanced within a short distance a small force at Húlan Robart ... After a march of defences of Kandahar and Quetta in as good four hours over a rough country he came in a state as he could ; and on 9 ... Found inside – Page 305... crown them for gradually ignored the Afghan suzerainty , and the some distance in the rear . The frowning defile Barakzis never enforced their authority . In occupying extends for three quarters of a mile , after which it Quetta the invasion of Afghanistan really commences , widens ... the Khan of Kal'at , which was made Quetta on the 20th , and Kandahar on the 4th of under the following circumstances . Found inside – Page 102It was natural that Quetta should be thought of first , for Quetta is within as short a striking distance of Kandahar as is Kuram of Kabul , How to Relieve Kandahar while Kabul is fully three hundred. 1 “ In Sir Donald Stewart ' s hands , and with ... Found inside – Page 3Quetta on the road to Kandahar . The distance from Mitri is about 187 miles , and in Sir Richard Temple's opinion the line , “ irrespective of engineering merits , has great administrative and " economic advantages , and is capable of producing ... Found inside – Page 273TERRIBLE MORTALITY AT QUETTA . —THE REGIMENT MARCHES FROM QUETTA TO KANDAHAR . 1841 . ... 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