IDEAL | The Great Game of Britain: The classic race game along Britain's historic railway networks | Classic Board Games | For 2-6 Players | Ages 7+

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Russian war plans against British India were developed during the Crimean War, presented to the Tsar in 1854 and 1855. The British were aware that Amir Abdur Rahman Khan had the support of the Afghans to continue fighting and he did not allow a British resident to stay in Kabul which was a British objective that caused the start of the conflict. Phanjoubam argues that Britain overreacted to Russian interest in Tibet, if perhaps understandably due to the presence of Dorzhiev. He and his cousin Kishen Singh continued to travel around Tibet and surrounding regions for many years. Narrative of Various Journeys in Balochistan, Afghanistan and the Panjab: Including a Residence in Those Countries from 1826–1838 Charles Masson.

Younger kids may find planning and organising their route a little tricky so I’d recommend playing with destination cards facing up to start with.As a result, Britain made it a high priority to protect all approaches to India, while Russia continued its military conquest of Central Asia.

With pay for work and security in place, nomads would settle and become tribal herdsman surrounding oasis cities. According to military history scholar Matt Salyer, the "Great Game" as a British strategy was a fiction, but the "Great Game" as a vague descriptor of various actions of multiple empires, "as far back as the Seven Years' War" is accurate. One journalist linked the term to an interest in the region's minerals [173] and another to its minerals and energy. A similar term, the "Tournament of Shadows" was reportedly used by Russian diplomat Karl Nesselrode.When France allied with Russia at Tilsit in 1807, as Russia was still invading Iran, Fath-Ali Shah turned toward British diplomacy and alliance in 1809. There, the King of Shambhala would, following the Maitreya prophecies, make his appearance to fight a great battle against all evil forces on Earth.

Between 1832 and 1834, Britain attempted to negotiate trade agreements with Ranjit Singh, ruler of the Sikh empire, and the Amirs of Sindh. Britain's intended strategy was to use its steam power and the river as a trade route into Central Asia.In the following year he wrote to Rawlinson, a member of the Council of India, "Our engagement with Russia with respect to the frontier of Afghanistan precludes us from promoting the incorporation of the Turkomans of Merv in the territories subject to the Ameer of Kabul". Players all start at London and plan the quickest most efficient route around the network to see all their destinations and be the first back to London. Aware of the importance of India to the British, Russian efforts in the region often had the aim of extorting concessions from them in Europe, [2] [4] [5] but after 1801, they had no serious intention of directly attacking India.

To ensure a complete separation, this new Afghan state was given an odd eastern appendage known as the Wakhan Corridor. According to historian Patrikeeff, the concept of the Great Game was also applied, possibly inaccurately, to Northeast Asia to describe Russia and Japan's contest over Manchuria – which took the form of the Russian invasion of Manchuria, Russo-Japanese War, and part of the Russian Civil War – and perhaps had similar ideological underpinnings to start with. Morgan says that two proud and expanding empires approached each other, without any agreed frontier, from opposite directions over a "backward, uncivilized and undeveloped region.By June 1914, Russia established near-total control over its northern zone, while Britain had established influence over Baluch and Bakhtiari autonomous tribal leaders in the southeastern zone. The intention to invade was clear, and when a copy of the Manifesto reached London there was no objection.