 | John Cave-Browne - 1861 - 400 ページ
...at some length into his high qualities, Colonel Edwardes wound up his account with these words — " If ever there is a desperate deed to be done in India, John Nicholson is the man to do it." Before the year was over, the necessity arose — a desperate deed had to be done. John Nicholson did... | |
 | 1861 - 842 ページ
...some length into his high qualities, Colonel Edwardes wound up his account with these words : — " If ever there is a desperate deed to be done in India, John Nicholson is the man to do it." Before the year was over, the necessity arose — a desperate deed had to be done. John Nicholson did... | |
 | John Cave-Browne - 1861 - 396 ページ
...at some length into his high qualities, Colonel Edwardes wound up his account with these words — " If ever there is a desperate deed to be done in India, John Nicholson is the man to do it." Before the year was over, the necessity arose — a desperate deed had to be done. John Nicholson did... | |
 | 1868 - 690 ページ
...eulogizing his many noble qualities, Sir Herbert concluded with these words, destined to be prophetic : " If ever there is a desperate deed to be done in India, John Nicholson is the man to do it." The deed had been done, the hero had fallen, but, 1868.] The Siege of Delhi. 619 as Sir John Lawrence... | |
 | Sir John William Kaye - 1869 - 412 ページ
...the manner of man whose cause he had been urging, Edwardes ended with these words : ' Well, my Lord, you may rely upon this, that if ever there is a desperate...done in India, John Nicholson is the man to do it.' This was at the end of March, 1857, when mutiny was beginning to show itself in the cantonment of Barrackpore.... | |
 | Sir John William Kaye - 1870 - 724 ページ
...Deputy-commissioner of the division. Only a little time before, Edwardes, being on a brief visit to Calcutta, had said to Lord Canning, "You may rely upon this...done in India, John Nicholson is the man to do it." And now the truth of these friendly but prophetic words was about to be realised. The hour had come... | |
 | Sir John William Kaye - 1874 - 728 ページ
...Commissioner of the division. Only a little time before, Edwardes, being on a brief visit to Calcutta, had said to Lord Canning, " You may rely upon this...done in India, John Nicholson is the man to do it." And now the truth of these friendly but prophetic words was about to be realised. The hour had come... | |
 | Thomas Rice Holmes - 1888 - 644 ページ
...to be wondered at that of such a man as this, Herbert Edwardes should have said to Lord Canning, " If ever there is a desperate deed to be done in India, John Nicholson is the man to do it."t Resolutions The council rapidly and harmoniously drew up its proc' thcil gramme. It was settled... | |
 | Lionel James Trotter - 1898 - 376 ページ
...whom the wild people of the frontier had deified, the man of whom Edwardes had said to Lord Canning, " If ever there is a desperate deed to be done in India,...which we were passing, one to follow to the death 1.' The storming columns were ready for the work before them ; but they had to wait until our batteries... | |
 | Lionel James Trotter - 1898 - 378 ページ
...whom the wild people of the frontier had deified, the man of whom Edwardes had said to Lord Canning, " If ever there is a desperate deed to be done in India,...through which we were passing, one to follow to the death1.' The storming columns were ready for the work before them ; but they had to wait until our... | |
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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... 
