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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... morning . A few years before , Dum - Dum had been a large military station , but the annexation of the Punjab , and the necessity for maintaining a considerable force in northern India , had greatly reduced the garrison . Even the small ...
... morning . A few years before , Dum - Dum had been a large military station , but the annexation of the Punjab , and the necessity for maintaining a considerable force in northern India , had greatly reduced the garrison . Even the small ...
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... morning the worst of the storm was over , but not before great damage had been done . The Native bazaar was completely wrecked , looking as if it had suffered a furious bombardment , and great havoc had been made amongst the European ...
... morning the worst of the storm was over , but not before great damage had been done . The Native bazaar was completely wrecked , looking as if it had suffered a furious bombardment , and great havoc had been made amongst the European ...
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... morning we reached the Bias river . Crossing by a bridge of boats , we found on the other side a small one- roomed house with a verandah running round it , built for the use of the European overseer in charge of the road . On matters ...
... morning we reached the Bias river . Crossing by a bridge of boats , we found on the other side a small one- roomed house with a verandah running round it , built for the use of the European overseer in charge of the road . On matters ...
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... morning he insisted on the dance being postponed . It seemed to me rather absurd to have to disappoint our friends because of a dream ; there was , however , nothing for it but to carry out my father's wishes , and intimation was ...
... morning he insisted on the dance being postponed . It seemed to me rather absurd to have to disappoint our friends because of a dream ; there was , however , nothing for it but to carry out my father's wishes , and intimation was ...
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... morning parade and freely discussed the home and local news . The troop to which I was posted was composed of a magnificent body of men , nearly all Irishmen , most of whom could have lifted me up with one hand . They were fine riders ...
... morning parade and freely discussed the home and local news . The troop to which I was posted was composed of a magnificent body of men , nearly all Irishmen , most of whom could have lifted me up with one hand . They were fine riders ...
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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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343 ページ - Master of the Most Honourable Order of the Bath; Knight Grand Commander of the Most Exalted Order of the Star of India; Knight Grand Cross of the Most Distinguished Order of Saint Michael and Saint...
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...