Re: Afghans and Orlanthi

From: Peter Metcalfe <metcalph_at_...>
Date: Mon, 16 Jan 2006 12:34:31 +1300


At 11:24 PM 1/15/2006 +0000, you wrote:

>Mountsuart Elphinstone, an employee of the East India Company wrote a
>sympathetic view of the Afghan tribespeople in 1809 entitled "An
>Account of the Kingdom of Caubul."

Not to be confused with the William Elphinstone who lost his entire army in Afghanistan during the First Anglo-Afghan War.

It's parallels like these which worry me in Roderick's Engiziland campaign.

--Peter Metcalfe

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