Gloria
History
Story of the World Book 4 Chapter 3, The Great Game
Dost Mohammed Khan ruled over Afghanistan, a country which people had been fighting over for centuries. Afghanistan was one of the barriers between the Russian and British empires. So, both empires wanted Afghanistan for their own. Eventually, Dost Mohammed Khan managed to drive both empires out, but died six weeks later.
That was a rare occurrence in those days. I took a lot of resilience and defence to defend a country against two of the worlds biggest empires at the time. I guess that shows that little people (or countries) can do big things.
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