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About The Book : This book has been considered by academicians and scholars of great significance and value to literature. This forms a part of the knowledge base for future generations. We have represented this book in the same form as it was first published. Hence any marks seen are left intentionally to preserve its true nature. The war in Afghanistan was marked by circumstances at once glorious and tragical beyond perhaps any which distinguished former periods of our history sufficing for a time to fill the minds of the most sanguine with apprehensions for our whole Indian empire. About The Author : Hugh Murray (1779-1846) FRSE FRGS was a Scottish geographer and author. He is often referred to as Hew Murray. He was the younger son of Rev Matthew Murray FRSE (1735–1791), minister of North Berwick, and his wife, Anne Hill (d.1803) daughter of Ref John Hill, of St. Andrews, and sister of Henry David Hill, professor at St. Andrews, and of Rev George Hill. Murray was editor of the Scots Magazine from 1816 to 1817. His connection with Archibald Constable's Edinburgh Gazetteer caused him to figure in the Tory squib, written by James Hogg and others, called Translation from an Ancient Chaldee MS., which appeared in Blackwood's Magazine for October 1817. His grandfather Rev George Murray (d. 1757), was minister of North Berwick, as was his elder brother, George (1772-1822), from 1795 till his death.