Forty-one Years in India: From Subaltern to Commander-in-chief, 第 2 巻Richard Bentley and Son, 1897 - 511 ページ |
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... troops was enclosed on the left ( west ) by the Guru Mountain , which separates Umbeyla from Buner , and on the right ( east ) by a range of hills , not quite so high . The main piquet on the Guru occupied a position above some ...
... troops was enclosed on the left ( west ) by the Guru Mountain , which separates Umbeyla from Buner , and on the right ( east ) by a range of hills , not quite so high . The main piquet on the Guru occupied a position above some ...
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... troops should not be withdrawn altogether , and the punish- ment of the fanatics given up , the Government of India and the Punjab Government being completely in accord in favouring this view , while the Commissioner of Peshawar , Major ...
... troops should not be withdrawn altogether , and the punish- ment of the fanatics given up , the Government of India and the Punjab Government being completely in accord in favouring this view , while the Commissioner of Peshawar , Major ...
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... troops to undertake an onward move , as well as to hold the present position , which , as we told the Chief , was one of the strongest we had ever seen . Sir William Denison reached Calcutta on the 2nd December . A careful study of the ...
... troops to undertake an onward move , as well as to hold the present position , which , as we told the Chief , was one of the strongest we had ever seen . Sir William Denison reached Calcutta on the 2nd December . A careful study of the ...
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... troops in the field , and had sent word to General Garvock not ' to attempt any operations until further orders . ' James , however , thinking that the situa- tion demanded immediate action , as disturbances had broken out in other ...
... troops in the field , and had sent word to General Garvock not ' to attempt any operations until further orders . ' James , however , thinking that the situa- tion demanded immediate action , as disturbances had broken out in other ...
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... troops landing in a foreign country , in consequence of their requirements not being all shipped in the same vessels with themselves - men in one ship , camp equipage in another , transport and field hospital in a third , or perhaps the ...
... troops landing in a foreign country , in consequence of their requirements not being all shipped in the same vessels with themselves - men in one ship , camp equipage in another , transport and field hospital in a third , or perhaps the ...
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5th Punjab 5th Punjab Cavalry 72nd Highlanders Abdur Rahman advance Afghan Afghanistan Alikhel Amir's amongst army arrangements arrived Artillery attack Author Ayub Khan Baker Bala Hissar Bengal brigade Brigadier-General British Government British officers Calcutta camp Captain Cavagnari Chief Colonel column command Commander-in-Chief communication crown 8vo defence Demy 8vo despatched Edition enemy enemy's England Excellency Field Force fire frontier Ghazni Government of India guns Gurkhas hills honour hope Horse Illustrations informed Kabul Kandahar Khan's Khyber large numbers late letter Lieutenant-Colonel Logar Lord Lytton Macpherson Mahomed Majesty Major Major-General ment miles military Miss Mission Mountain battery Native novel pass Peiwar Kotal Peshawar Portrait position PUBLISHERS in ORDINARY Punjab Cavalry Punjab Infantry reached received regiments RICHARD BENTLEY rifles Roberts Royal Ruler Russian sent Sher Sherpur Shutargardan Sikhs Simla Sir Donald Stewart Sirdar soldiers transport tribes tribesmen troops Umbeyla valley Viceroy village vols Wali wife wounded Yakub Khan
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