FOOTNOTES, CHAPTER XXXVIII
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1. Mahomed Afzal Khan aged 52 years By a wife not of Royal blood.
2. Mahomed Azim Khan " 45 " " " " " " " "
3. Sher Ali Khan " 40 " By a favourite Popalzai wife.
4. Mahomed Amir Khan " 34 " " " " " "
5. Mahomed Sharif Khan " 30 " " " " " "
6. Wali Mahomed Khan " 33 " By a third wife.
7. Faiz Mahomed Khan " 25 " " " " "
Notes in this chapter
Note 1 · Afzal Khan had a son Abdur Rahman Khan, the present Amir of Afghanistan, and Sher Ali had five sons—Ali Khan, Yakub Khan, Ibrahim Khan, AyubNote 2 · [Footnote 1: The Cachar column consisted of half of the Peshawar Mountain battery, one company of Bengal Sappers and Miners, the 22nd PunjabNote 3 · [Footnote 1: We lived in this house whenever we were in Simla, till we left it in 1892. It has since been bought by Government for the CommaNote 4 · [Footnote 1: Now General Lord Chelmsford, G.C.B.] [Footnote 2: 60th Rifles, 2nd Gurkhas, and 1st Punjab Infantry.] [Footnote 3: Lumsden retuNote 5 · [Footnote 1: The Amir's eldest son, who had rebelled on his younger brother, Abdulla Jan, being nominated heir to the throne.] [Footnote 2: Note 6 · [Footnote 1: It is instructive to note how remarkably similar were the circumstances which brought about the first and second Afghan wars, vNote 7 · [Footnote 1: On the 13th June, the day on which the Berlin Congress held its first sitting, the news of the approach of General Stolietoff's