Lady Florentia Sale, "the Grenadier in Petticoats", wrote about her captivity in this modern-daycountry. Alexander Burnes was was promised safe passage out of this country, only to be hacked todeath with household implements by residents enraged at his prolific bedding of local women.Elphinstone's column was massacred in 1842 after fleeing this country's capital during "Auckland'sFolly". The (*) Durand line was established during a series of wars between Britain and its ruling Barakzaidynasty. The 1907 Anglo-Russian Convention mostly ended a strategic contest centered on this countrybetween Russia and Britain, known as the Great Game. For 10 points, name this Middle Eastern countryinvaded by the Soviets in the 1980s and once ruled by the Taliban.
Lady Florentia Sale, "the Grenadier in Petticoats", wrote about her captivity in this modern-daycountry. Alexander Burnes was was promised safe passage out of this country, only to be hacked todeath with household implements by residents enraged at his prolific bedding of local women.Elphinstone's column was massacred in 1842 after fleeing this country's capital during "Auckland'sFolly". The (*) Durand line was established during a series of wars between Britain and its ruling Barakzaidynasty. The 1907 Anglo-Russian Convention mostly ended a strategic contest centered on this countrybetween Russia and Britain, known as the Great Game. For 10 points, name this Middle Eastern countryinvaded by the Soviets in the 1980s and once ruled by the Taliban.
Lady Florentia Sale, "the Grenadier in Petticoats", wrote about her captivity in this modern-daycountry.
Islamic Republic of Afghanistan [or Jomhuri-ye Eslami-ye Afganestan; or Da Afganistan Islami Jomhoriyat]