At the close of the year, he reported to Napoleon that, for the march overland from Syria to the Ganges, Cyprus was an indispensable base of supplies: he recommended the route Bir, Mardin, Teheran, Herat, Cabul, and Peshawar: forty to fifty thousand French troops would be needed, and thirty or forty thousand Persians should also be taken up.
"The Life of Napoleon I (Volumes, 1 and 2)"
John Holland Rose
I would undertake, within four weeks of the outbreak of war, to mass a sufficient field army in Afghanistan round Herat.
"The Coming Conquest of England"
August Niemann