Sale's Brigade in AfghanistanJ. Murray, 1846 - 182 pagina's |
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Afghanistan Afghans Akbar Khan Alexander Burnes arms army arrived artillery ayah baggage Balla Hissar began Bengal Bootkak Bramin British British army brought Cabul camp Candahar Captain cavalry CHAP chief Colonel Dennie column command corps course Doorannee Dost Mohammed enemy English European fire force Futtehabad garrison Gentoo Ghilzies Ghuznee Government guard guns hand head hills Hindoo Hissar honour horse hour hundred hyænas India Indus Jellalabad keep Kohistan ladies LETTER look Madras Mahmoud matter miles Missionaries Moonshee morning mountains never night officers party pass Peons Peshawur poor pretty Punjaub Rajahmundry rear-guard received regiments road round rupees Sale's brigade sappers scarcely seemed sent servants Shah Shujah Shah's Sir Henry Fane Sir Robert Sale skirmishers soldiers soon Sukkur tents thousand tion Tizeen told took town tribe troops valley village walls whole William Macnaghten Willoughby Cotton
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Pagina 1 - Afghaunistan and Segistan, with part of Khorasan and of Makran ; Balk, with Tokarestaun and Kilan ; Kuttore, Caubul, Candahar, Sindy, and Cashmeer, together with a portion of Lahore and the greater part of Moultan. The whole population of the Kingdom cannot be under fourteen millions. This was the number fixed by one of the gentlemen of the mission, on a calculation of the extent and comparative population of the different provinces.
Pagina 71 - we see that you are notlike the infidel Hindoos that follow you ; you are men born and bred like ourselves, where the seasons vary, and in their changes give vigour both to body and mind. We wish that you had come among us as friends, and not as enemies, for you are fine fellows one by one, though as a body we hate you.
Pagina 19 - ... put off upon him without being found out by the master and mistress. Notwithstanding their numbers, they are dreadfully slow. I often tire myself with doing things for myself rather than wait for their dawdling ; but Mrs. Staunton laughs at me, and calls me a 'griffin,' and says I must learn to have patience and save my strength.
Pagina 24 - The Governor-General confidently hopes that the Shah will be speedily replaced on his throne by his own subjects and adherents ; and when once he shall be secured in power, and the independence and integrity of Afghanistan established, the British army will be withdrawn.
Pagina 116 - Dennie, by a feigned retreat of his infantry, lured the tribesmen into the open plain and there destroyed them with his cavalry, whose "right arms were wearied with the blows which they struck; and the quantity of dead that might be seen scattered over the face of the valley proved that they had not struck at random".
Pagina 26 - It is wonderful how little interested most of the English ladies seem by all the strange habits and ways of the natives ; and it is not merely that they have grown used to it all, but that, by their own accounts, they never cared more about what goes on around them than they do now. I can only suppose they have forgotten their first impressions. But this makes me wish to try and see everything that I can while the bloom of my Orientalism is fresh upon me, and before this apathy and listlessness have...
Pagina 23 - Singh, had for their object, by opening the navigation of the Indus, to facilitate the extension of commerce, and to gain for the British nation in Central Asia that legitimate influence which an interchange of benefits would naturally produce.
Pagina 18 - Quhill we brushit thro' the cludis of the hevin; Than sousit dounright like the stern-shot light, Fra the liftis blue casement driven. 'But our taickil stood, and our bark was good, And...
Pagina 19 - Every horse has a man and a maid to himself; the maid cuts grass for him : and every dog has a boy. I inquired whether the cat had any servants, but I found she was allowed to wait upon herself; and as she seemed the only person in the establishment capable of so doing, I respected her accordingly.
Pagina 83 - No ; I sometimes class them as civil and uncivil." He has made no more rude speeches to me since.