The letter below was written at the beginning of the first phase of a two year British campaign in Afghanistan [1878-1880].
England is a great leading “Christian Country”, therefore as we profess to believe, as a people, in the “Gospel of Peace” , we are the readiest to go to war on the least, lowest, and pettiest pretences- last week war was declared & commenced against the Afghan Ameer and People- we deserve to be beaten, & humbled as a people, for our folly, our conceit, and bantam-cock kind of injustice.
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