text:  The British army may not have been employed to enforce any unjust command--its movements may have been less far less injurious to the countries through which it passed than those of an Affghan army would have been and its power in the moment of success may have been far less abused; but still it gave a strength to the arm of the sovereign which was incompatible with the maintenance of the pre-existing civil and social institutions or condition of the country and especially of the relative positions of the sovereign and the noble