The Conquest of Peshawar by Maharaja Ranjit Singh

The North-West frontier has always formed a vital problems and has always been of the unmost concern to the power paramount in India. Ranjit Singh knew well that it was very hard and costly to conquer the hardly mountainous tribes of the North-Western Frontier. Hari Singh Nalwa had been advising Ranjit Singh for a forward policy and that his French officer too were anxious to try their hands in Afganistan as Ranjit Singh himself once told Wade, “The French officers tell me that if I palace ten regular battalions, two or three regiments of cavalry, and a few pieces of artillery at their disposal they will engage to conquer Kabul and subdue the whole of Afganistan to my authority.”