Arthur Conolly, Victorian Spy
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Arthur Conolly, Victorian Spy

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Arthur Conolly, Victorian Spy

About this book

In September 1840, intelligence officer Captain Arthur Conolly set out from Kabul for Central Asia. His orders were to persuade its rulers to unite to resist Russian advances and open their markets to British goods. Conolly, a devout Christian and abolitionist, had a higher agenda: to free thousands of slaves. Writing to a fellow officer, he described his mission as part of a " great game." Quoted by Rudyard Kipling in his novel Kim, historians would use the phrase to describe the geopolitical rivalry between the two nineteenth century superpowers— Victorian Britain and Tsarist Russia— in a vast area from Persia to Tibet. The khans of Khiva and Kokand warned Conolly not to travel to Bokhara, where the emir had imprisoned a British officer suspected of spying. Conolly went anyway, was arrested and thrown into prison. Eighteen months later, sketchy accounts reached London that the two officers had been executed, but were contradicted by reports that they were rotting in a cell in the emir' s palace. It would take an expedition from England by an eccentric, multilingual clergyman to learn the truth.

Information

Publisher
Blackwater Press
Year
2026
Topic
History
eBook ISBN
9781963614343
Subtopic
Historical Biographies
Index
History

Table of contents

  1. List of Illustrations
  2. List of Maps
  3. Foreword
  4. Introduction: Arthur Conolly’s great game
  5. Players and places in the game
  6. Chapter 1: The Bug Pit
  7. Chapter 2: A medieval map
  8. Chapter 3: Russia plays the game
  9. Chapter 4: Passage to India
  10. Chapter 5: ‘The first of the young bloods’
  11. Chapter 6: South to the Caucasus
  12. Chater 7: The Syud
  13. Chapter 8: Turcoman ‘hospitality’
  14. Chapter 9: To the holy city
  15. Chapter 10: Dawn to dusk in Meshed
  16. Chapter 11: Kafilah to Herat
  17. Chapter 12: A well-fortified town
  18. Chapter 13: The road to Kandahar
  19. Chapter 14: The horse traders of Pishin
  20. Chapter 15: ‘An Overland Invasion of India’
  21. Chapter 16: ‘Too much of a vagabond’
  22. Chapter 17: Kingmaking in Kabul
  23. Chapter 18: The envoys
  24. Chapter 19: Freeing the Russian slaves
  25. Chapter 20: ‘A great game, a noble game’
  26. Chapter 21: The emirs of Bokhara
  27. Chapter 22: Diplomatic faux pas
  28. Chapter 23: The Russians are coming
  29. Chapter 24: From Kabul to Khiva
  30. Chapter 25: Romancing the khan
  31. Chapter 26: The emir sets a trap
  32. Chapter 27: Disaster and revenge
  33. Chapter 28: ‘The sad state of our clothes’
  34. Chapter 29: Worrying news from Tehran
  35. Chapter 30: Fake news from Bokhara?
  36. Chapter 31: The talented Reverend Wolff
  37. Chapter 32: Gentlemen, raise your glasses and make your pledges!
  38. Chapter 33: ‘A Wolff in wolf’s clothing’
  39. Chapter 34: ‘A person comes from England’
  40. Chapter 35: ‘I am in a great stew’
  41. Chapter 36: High noon at the Ark
  42. Postscript: My short journey to Bokhara
  43. The research journey
  44. Sources
  45. Acknowledgements
  46. Glossary of terms
  47. Timeline
  48. Index
  49. About the Author

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