Mc Naughton's Failure to Deal With the Afghans

In october 18 forty one a mob attacked the home of a british official and killed him. In kabel, local chiefs began to conspire to expel their british overlords. Mc naughton decided to cut this stipend in half. The rilsied responded by blocking the passes. And elsewhere in the country, tribes sympathetic to the rilsier rebelled. Now the british army would have to stay indefinitely. Shah sujah panicked for months. He had begged mc naughton to let him capture and kill his main rivals - an afghan ruler's traditional method of securing his position. But he knew that the afghans respected strength and authority