Forty-one Years in India: From Subaltern to Commander-in-chief, 第 1 巻Longmans, Green & Company, 1898 - 597 ページ |
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... duty PAGE 190-198 CHAPTER XXVI . Death of General Havelock - Appeals from Cawnpore -- General Wind- ham - The passage of the Ganges CHAPTER XXVII . The fight at Cawnpore - Unexpected visitors - A long chase - Unjur Tiwari - Bithur ...
... duty PAGE 190-198 CHAPTER XXVI . Death of General Havelock - Appeals from Cawnpore -- General Wind- ham - The passage of the Ganges CHAPTER XXVII . The fight at Cawnpore - Unexpected visitors - A long chase - Unjur Tiwari - Bithur ...
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... duty was to super- intend the firing of salutes . Nor was there much in my surroundings to compensate for the prosaic nature of my work . Fort William was not then what it has since become - one of the healthiest stations in India ...
... duty was to super- intend the firing of salutes . Nor was there much in my surroundings to compensate for the prosaic nature of my work . Fort William was not then what it has since become - one of the healthiest stations in India ...
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... duty of one servant , called the hookah - bardar , was to prepare the pipe for his master , and to have it ready at all times . My next resting - place was Cawnpore , my birthplace , where I remained a few days . The Cawnpore division ...
... duty of one servant , called the hookah - bardar , was to prepare the pipe for his master , and to have it ready at all times . My next resting - place was Cawnpore , my birthplace , where I remained a few days . The Cawnpore division ...
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... duty of pipe for his ce , where I at time com- BENGAL HORSE ARTILLERY 7 1852 ] manded by an officer of the name of Palmer , who had only recently attained the rank of Brigadier - General , though he could not have been less than sixty ...
... duty of pipe for his ce , where I at time com- BENGAL HORSE ARTILLERY 7 1852 ] manded by an officer of the name of Palmer , who had only recently attained the rank of Brigadier - General , though he could not have been less than sixty ...
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... duty with the Artillery . The 2nd Company , 2nd Battalion , to which I belonged , was composed of a fine body of men , who had a grand reputation in the field , but , being somewhat troublesome in quarters , had acquired the nickname of ...
... duty with the Artillery . The 2nd Company , 2nd Battalion , to which I belonged , was composed of a fine body of men , who had a grand reputation in the field , but , being somewhat troublesome in quarters , had acquired the nickname of ...
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2nd Punjab Cavalry 4th Punjab 4th Punjab Infantry 9th Lancers advance Afghan Afghanistan Agra Alambagh Amir Amir's ammunition amongst Anson army arrived attack battalion battery Bengal Brigadier British Government British officers Calcutta camp Captain carried Cawnpore Chamberlain Chief Colonel column command Commander-in-Chief Delhi despatched enemy enemy's European feeling fight fire Foot force friends frontier Fusiliers garrison Gough ground guard guns Gurkhas heard hills Hindu Hindu Rao's house Hope Grant Horse Artillery India John Lawrence Jullundur Kabul Kandahar Kashmir Khan killed Lahore Lieutenant Lord Lucknow Mahomed Mahomedan Meerut ment miles morning Mutiny Native Infantry Native officers Native troops Nicholson Oudh Outram party Peshawar piquets position Punjab Cavalry Punjab Infantry reached rebels received regiment river road sent sepoys shot siege Sikhs Simla Sir Colin soldiers soon squadron staff station taken told took Umballa Viceroy village walls wounded Yakub Yakub Khan
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260 ページ - The Crown of England stands forth the unquestioned ruler and paramount power in all India, and is for the first time brought face to face with its feudatories. There is a reality in the suzerainty of the Sovereign of England which has never existed before, and which is not only felt but eagerly acknowledged by the Chiefs.
468 ページ - My intention, when I left Kabul, was to ride as far as the Khyber Pass, but suddenly a presentiment, which I have never been able to explain to myself, made me retrace my steps and hurry back towards Kabul — a presentiment of coming trouble which I can only characterise as instinctive.
236 ページ - the British Government would be guilty in the sight of God and man if it were any longer to aid in sustaining by its countenance an administration fraught with suffering to millions.
125 ページ - Edwardes had said to Lord Canning, " You may rely upon this, that if ever there is a desperate deed to be done in India. John Nicholson is the man to do it...
121 ページ - ... they got a gun to bear from a hole broken open in the long curtain wall; they sent rockets from one of their martello towers, and they maintained a perfect storm of musketry from their advanced trench, and from the city walls.
51 ページ - I am not so much surprised/ he wrote to Lord Canning, ' at their objections to the cartridges, having seen them. I had no idea they contained, or rather are smeared with such a quantity of grease, which looks exactly like fat. After ramming down the ball, the muzzle of the musket is covered with it.
55 ページ - ... every turn and corner of them, would, it appears to me, be in a very dangerous position. And if six or seven hundred were disabled, what would remain ? Could we hold it with the whole country armed against us ? Could we either stay in or out of it ? My own view of the state of things now is...
113 ページ - General Havelock has crossed the river to relieve Lucknow, which will be effected four days hence. He has a strong force with him, and he has already thrashed the Nana and completely dispersed his force.
22 ページ - For, oh, if there be an elysium on earth, It is this, it is this ! There's a bliss beyond all that the minstrel has told, When two, that are link'd in one heavenly tie, With heart never changing and brow never cold, Love on through all ills, and love on till they die ; One hour of a passion so sacred is worth Whole ages of heartless and wandering bliss : And oh...