Dost Mohammad welcomes a British mission to…

December 1837 CE

Dost Mohammad welcomes a British mission to Kabul under Captain Alexander Burnes to Kabul in December 1837.

Burnes, however, is unable to prevail on the governor-general, Lord Auckland, to respond to the amir's advances.

The Emir is enjoined to abandon the attempt to recover Peshawar, and to place his foreign policy under British guidance.

In return, he is only promised protection from the Sikhs.

After a Russian agent, Captain J. P. Witkiewicz, appears in Kabul, the British soon leave for India.

Dost Mohammad begins negotiations with Witkiewicz.

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Kabul Kabol Afghanistan View →

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Alexander Burnes View → Dost Mohammad Khan View → George Eden, 1st Earl of Auckland View → Jan Prosper Witkiewicz View →

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East India Company, British (United Company of Merchants of England Trading to the East Indies) View → Russian Empire View → India, East India Company rule in View → Persia, Qajarid Kingdom of View → Sikh Empire View → Britain (United Kingdom of Great Britain and Ireland) View → Afghanistan, (Barakzai) Emirate of View →

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Great Game, The View → Afghan-Sikh War View →

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