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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... possible precautions , and make every possible preparation to meet such an eventuality . I send out this book in the earnest hope that the friendly anticipations of those who advised me to write it may not be seriously disappointed ...
... possible precautions , and make every possible preparation to meet such an eventuality . I send out this book in the earnest hope that the friendly anticipations of those who advised me to write it may not be seriously disappointed ...
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... possible in order that the station might be the more easily protected from the raids of the Afridis and other robber tribes , who had their homes in the neighbouring moun- tains , and constantly descended into the valley for the sake of ...
... possible in order that the station might be the more easily protected from the raids of the Afridis and other robber tribes , who had their homes in the neighbouring moun- tains , and constantly descended into the valley for the sake of ...
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... possible - in the summer sitting in the sun absolutely idle the greater part of the day , and in the winter wrapped up in their blankets , under which were concealed curious little vessels called kangris , holding two or three bits of ...
... possible - in the summer sitting in the sun absolutely idle the greater part of the day , and in the winter wrapped up in their blankets , under which were concealed curious little vessels called kangris , holding two or three bits of ...
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... possible recruit was quite enough for me . I was in no hurry to leave the Horse Artillery , to which I was proud of belonging , and in which I hoped to see service while still on the frontier . I left Simla very pleased with the result ...
... possible recruit was quite enough for me . I was in no hurry to leave the Horse Artillery , to which I was proud of belonging , and in which I hoped to see service while still on the frontier . I left Simla very pleased with the result ...
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... possible to practise in peace what they would have to do in war . Sydney Cotton was never tired of explaining that the machinery of war , like all other machinery , should be kept , so to speak , oiled and ready for use . My dream of a ...
... possible to practise in peace what they would have to do in war . Sydney Cotton was never tired of explaining that the machinery of war , like all other machinery , should be kept , so to speak , oiled and ready for use . My dream of a ...
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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...