The Conquest of Scinde: With Some Introductory Passages in the Life of Major-General Sir Charles James Napier, חלק 1T. & W. Boone, 1845 - 531 עמודים |
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Affghan Ali Moorad Ameers Anglo-Indian Anglo-Indian Government arms army AUSTRALIA battle Battle of Waterloo Beloochees Bengal Bolan pass Bombay Bond Street British Government brother Cabool camp Candahar Captain cession CHAP CHARLES JAMES NAPIER chief Colonel Pottinger command Dooranee England favour feel force friendship Futteh Mohamed Ghoree give Governor-General Herat honour hostile Hyderabad India Indus intercourse interest Khan king Kurrachee land letter Lieut.-Colonel Lieut.-General Lord Auckland Lord Ellenborough lower Scinde Major Outram Major-General Meer Roostum Meerpoor menaced ment mentary Papers miles military Moorad nations negotiation Noor Nusseer officers oppression Parlia pass Peninsular War Persian political agent possession post 8vo princes proof Punjaub Regt river Roostum Roree rulers Runjeet Sing Scindian secret Seiks Shah Sooja Shere Mohamed shewing Shikarpoor Sir Charles Napier Sobdar soldiers spirit subjects Sukkur Sutledge Talpoor territory tion tolls tribes tribute tripartite treaty troops turban upper Scinde volumes Waterloo ᏢᎪᎡᎢ
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עמוד 71 - With such adherence, I feel quite at a loss to know how we can either ask money, or any favour, of this family. I have never doubted their sincere disposition to cling to us, but in their weak state I did not expect such firmness in the day of trial.
עמוד 5 - It is one of the most pithy, witty, soldier-like, and pleasant books in existence." United Service Journal. " The present volume is to the full as pleasant, and what is still more strange, as original as the last. Criticism would become a sinecure if many such volumes were written : all left for us is to admire and recommend.
עמוד 8 - Treatise on the Principle and Construction of Military Bridges, and the Passage of Rivers in Military Operations.
עמוד 7 - This clever and fearless account of the attack on New Orleans is penned by one of the ' occupation ;' whose soldier-like view and keen observation during the period of the stirring events he so well relates, has enabled him to bring before the public the ablest account that has yet been given of that ill-fated and disgraceful expedition, and also to rescue the troops who were employed on it from those degrading reflections which have hitherto unjustly been insinuated against them.
עמוד 36 - English troops ; trade is at a stand ; a pestilence has fallen on the land ; you have talked about the people, what are the people to us, poor or rich ? what do we care, if they pay us our revenue ? You tell me the country will flourish, it is quite good enough for us, and not so likely to tempt the cupidity of its neighbours; Hindoostan was rich, and that is the reason it is under your subjection.
עמוד 3 - LAW AND THE PUNISHMENT OF FLOGGING. BY MAJOR-GENERAL SIR CHARLES JAMES NAPIER, KCB " This work, we have several times taken occasion to remark, is far less known than it deserves to be, especially among the profession. It abounds in lessons of profound wisdom, delivered in the clearest language, and it is as modestly as it is ably written ; nor have we often met with a more amusing book.
עמוד 4 - If Admiral Napier be not distinguished by the common-place facilities of authorship, he possesses the higher qualities of truth, discretion, and clear-sightedness, in no slight degree.
עמוד 39 - Alas! Scinde is now gone, since the English have seen the river which is the high road to its conquest" was the prescient observation of a Syud near Tatta.
עמוד 175 - Lord Ellenborough and myself found them. I cannot enter upon our right to be here at all, that is Lord Auckland's affair. Well, I presented the draft of the new treaty. The Ameers bowed with their usual apparent compliance, but raised troops in all directions. These I was ordered by the GovernorGeneral to disperse.
עמוד 5 - To those who are unacquainted with John Kincaid of the Rifles, — and few, we trow, of the old Peninsula bands are in this ignorant predicament, and to those who, know him, we equally recommend the perusal of his book : it is a fan-simile of the man — a perfect reflection of his image, veluti in specula.